vox by Christina Dalcher

Thirty-seventh book of 2020

Reading period: May 06th 2020 – May 12th 2020

Summary

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…

Rating

Review

I have this book since 2018, but as I am not a big fan of SF and dystopian novels, I was reluctant to read it.

What a shame that I didn’t read it sooner. This book is astonishing! I couldn’t put it down as I wanted to know how all of that could have happened. Also, the concise chapter didn’t help either. This story is so realistic, and everything occurred in the near future, that makes everything more frightening.

Even if it’s a fiction, you have a lot of familiar situations that every woman is living daily, like the ordinary sexism.

The only thing that makes me put this rating is the fact that the action is mainly toward the end, and I spend my time in kind of anger because of how this society thinks and acts toward women but also men that don’t respect the rules, and I am telling you it is not fair at all.

Liz.