Nightingale

More like 4 and 1/2. I don't know why it took me so long to read this! My daughter highly recommended it to me and I've loved Lukavics' other books. It's been on the TBR list for ages.
Anyhoo. It's awesome and it's awesome on a grand scale.
Imagine having zero control over your own future and, if you were not able to be kind about it or fake smile enough, you could be committed to a mental hospital against your will. This is not science fiction, this was reality for women for centuries.
Now, add some science fiction (in fact, let's pepper in some cosmic horror as well) and we get Nightingale. It's fabulous.
My only gripe was that I think it could have been a pinch shorter and I would have liked to have gotten to know some of the other patients better. My other gripe (and this has no effect on star rating) is the title. I have the worst time finding it in databases (including Goodreads) AND there are already so many books with this title. Luckily I have memorized how to spell the author's last name. I'm always recommending her books to readers anyway.