Compensation.
Someone, somewhere in that publishing agency knew that the book was not that good and went the extra-mile on the cover to try and salvage the investment through impulse buys.
I must say that Nessa's description made it sound like a liberal (global warming is man made, women can do everything a man can do BETTER, soldiers are sad if there's no war, pampered rich kids could succeed with minimal effort in the military, blah blah blah) screed.
Science fiction is all about speculation but when it comes to women in combat I have very little patience these days. Putting women into combat as though they were men works about as well as having open flame on the asteroid in that armageddon movie, or tilting gravity on star ships in the Star Wars films.
Good science fiction lets you postulate what would happen if...something...and the rules that we know to govern the world still apply. Making women soldiers act just like men with different plumbing is a pointless political gesture.
There are ways to make women in combat roles work. One of those ways is NOT simply making the military gender-blind.
I haven't read the book. From Nessa's description, I don't plan to.
