VOX by Christina Dalcher

VOX

by Christina Dalcher

‘This book will blow your mind’ PRIMA

‘Disturbing’ LEE CHILD

‘A petrifying reimagining of The Handmaid’s Tale’ ELLE

‘Left me speechless’ DAILY MAIL

‘Terrifying’ RED

‘A novel ripe for the #MeToo era’ VANITY FAIR

‘Extraordinary’ LOUISE O’NEILL

‘The book of the moment!’ MARIE CLAIRE‘

A dazzling debut’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

‘Truly compulsive’ STYLIST

‘Thrilling. I was left speechless’ WOMAN & HOME

‘Set to dominate dinner party chats’ COSMOPOLITAN

‘Terrifying in its relevance’ GRAZIA

‘The Handmaid’s Tale 2.0’ EVENING STANDARD

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…

[100 WORD LIMIT REACHED]

Reviewed by lovelybookshelf on

2 of 5 stars

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A dystopian novel is exciting thanks to its plausibility, which comes through a light hand: not too preachy or over-the-top. This book misses the mark, completely. Also, it seems to call out white feminism, but where's the intersectionality? Far too many problematic moments go unaddressed: trans/enby erasure, cisnormativity, racism, ableism. The revolution will be intersectional. Why center a character who is the ultimate white feminist?

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