Vox
Author: Christina DAlcher
Published by:HQ Stories
Pages: 388
Format:Paperback
My Rating ★★★
Silence can be deafening.
Jean McClellan spends her time in almost complete silence, limited to just one hundred words a day. Any more, and a thousand volts of electricity will course through her veins.
Now the new government is in power, everything has changed. But only if you’re a woman.
Almost overnight, bank accounts are frozen, passports are taken away and seventy million women lose their jobs. Even more terrifyingly, young girls are no longer taught to read or write.
For herself, her daughter, and for every woman silenced, Jean will reclaim her voice. This is only the beginning.
My thoughts
Set in an America where half the population has been silenced, VOX is the harrowing, story of what one woman will do to protect herself and her daughter. Soon women can no longer hold jobs. Girls are no longer taught to read or write. They no longer can hold a job, vote, travel, use a computer or read and they are limited by the counters on their wrists to one hundred words per day. Females no longer have a voice. Before, the average person spoke sixteen thousand words a day, but now women only have one hundred to make themselves heard.
On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed to speak more than 100 words daily, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial—this can’t happen here. Not in America. Not to her.
VOX is undeniably a copycat of The Handmaid’s Tale in many ways, but overall I think I found the book fairly entertaining for the most part. Of course it’s far fetched, but I was able to suspend belief for a while and give this book a chance.
All in all I was left terribly disappointed by this one. Despite the short chapters, parts of the book felt sluggish and too long, and the writing presents a very black-and-white approach to women’s rights, religion, politics and general humanity.
The idea is really great, but the writing style included overuse of unnecessary medical details, unbelievable coincidences, some flat characters and a very rushed ending. Initially, the pacing was good and I went in with high hopes, but the plot really lacked depth or imagination, especially in the second part. There are genuinely some good ideas contained within the book, but none of them are really developed.
The book includes tons of stereotyping, and the ending seemed completely rushed, far-fetched and underwhelming. It took me a long time to work my way through VOX, and I think that really comes down to the fact that I just couldn’t engage with the story as much as I’d hoped.
I still feel the premise was really intriguing and had so much potential, but unfortunately I really didn’t connect with this one. I just know it could’ve been so much better.
Overall reaction:
Published by:HQ Stories
Pages: 388
Format:Paperback
My Rating ★★★
Silence can be deafening.
Jean McClellan spends her time in almost complete silence, limited to just one hundred words a day. Any more, and a thousand volts of electricity will course through her veins.
Now the new government is in power, everything has changed. But only if you’re a woman.
Almost overnight, bank accounts are frozen, passports are taken away and seventy million women lose their jobs. Even more terrifyingly, young girls are no longer taught to read or write.
For herself, her daughter, and for every woman silenced, Jean will reclaim her voice. This is only the beginning.
My thoughts
Set in an America where half the population has been silenced, VOX is the harrowing, story of what one woman will do to protect herself and her daughter. Soon women can no longer hold jobs. Girls are no longer taught to read or write. They no longer can hold a job, vote, travel, use a computer or read and they are limited by the counters on their wrists to one hundred words per day. Females no longer have a voice. Before, the average person spoke sixteen thousand words a day, but now women only have one hundred to make themselves heard.
On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed to speak more than 100 words daily, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial—this can’t happen here. Not in America. Not to her.
VOX is undeniably a copycat of The Handmaid’s Tale in many ways, but overall I think I found the book fairly entertaining for the most part. Of course it’s far fetched, but I was able to suspend belief for a while and give this book a chance.
All in all I was left terribly disappointed by this one. Despite the short chapters, parts of the book felt sluggish and too long, and the writing presents a very black-and-white approach to women’s rights, religion, politics and general humanity.
The idea is really great, but the writing style included overuse of unnecessary medical details, unbelievable coincidences, some flat characters and a very rushed ending. Initially, the pacing was good and I went in with high hopes, but the plot really lacked depth or imagination, especially in the second part. There are genuinely some good ideas contained within the book, but none of them are really developed.
The book includes tons of stereotyping, and the ending seemed completely rushed, far-fetched and underwhelming. It took me a long time to work my way through VOX, and I think that really comes down to the fact that I just couldn’t engage with the story as much as I’d hoped.
I still feel the premise was really intriguing and had so much potential, but unfortunately I really didn’t connect with this one. I just know it could’ve been so much better.
Overall reaction: