Vox
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"[An] electrifying debut."--O, The Oprah Magazine
"The real-life parallels will make you shiver."--Cosmopolitan Set in a United States in which half the population has been silenced, Vox is the harrowing, unforgettable story of what one woman will do to protect herself and her daughter. On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed more than one hundred words per day, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial. This can't happen here. Not in America. Not to her. Soon women are not permitted to hold jobs. Girls are not taught to read or write. Females no longer have a voice. Before, the average person spoke sixteen thousand words each day, but now women have only one hundred to make themselves heard. For herself, her daughter, and every woman silenced, Jean will reclaim her voice. This is just the beginning...not the end. One of Good Morning America's "Best Books to Bring to the Beach This Summer"
One of PopSugar, Refinery29, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Real Simple, i09, and Amazon's Best Books to Read in August 2018
"[An] electrifying debut."--O, The Oprah Magazine
"The real-life parallels will make you shiver."--Cosmopolitan Set in a United States in which half the population has been silenced, Vox is the harrowing, unforgettable story of what one woman will do to protect herself and her daughter. On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed more than one hundred words per day, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial. This can't happen here. Not in America. Not to her. Soon women are not permitted to hold jobs. Girls are not taught to read or write. Females no longer have a voice. Before, the average person spoke sixteen thousand words each day, but now women have only one hundred to make themselves heard. For herself, her daughter, and every woman silenced, Jean will reclaim her voice. This is just the beginning...not the end. One of Good Morning America's "Best Books to Bring to the Beach This Summer"
One of PopSugar, Refinery29, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Real Simple, i09, and Amazon's Best Books to Read in August 2018
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I actually really liked this book more than I thought I would. Although it kind of scary cause I feel like it could happen 😳
I think this book was well writen and the message is important. I'd recommend everyone read it. I rated a 7/10 simply because the topic enrages me and it feels close to home. Amazing book.
Dystopian novel set in a near current USA, in which the sitting president and his cadre has decided to purify the US. His strategy is to silence the females. Women are forced to wear word counters, allowing only 100 words per day - after which the counters will shock them with increasing intensity as word counts increase. Here is where we find our protagonist, Jean is a neuroscientist specializing in speech disorders. As she is freed from the word counter after over a year to reverse a specific aphasia, she finds herself embroiled in more than scientific tests. Compelling. Terrifying.
It took me two weeks to read this book...which is almost unheard of for me. But after every single chapter, I had to put the book down and not look at it for 24 hours. As an opinionated woman living in 2018, I was enraged reading it - sometimes to the point of almost throwing the book across the room because of how a character acted.
However, the writing and the premise were so well done and thought out, I truly enjoyed reading it...even through my rage. My only reasoning for 4 stars instead of 5 was the ending. No spoilers...I just thought that the end could have been drawn out a little more. At times, it felt rushed...esp considering how thoroughly this horrific world was shown to us at the beginning of the book.
I highly recommend Vox. But maybe don't watch the news the entire time you're reading it...gotta keep your blood pressure down.
However, the writing and the premise were so well done and thought out, I truly enjoyed reading it...even through my rage. My only reasoning for 4 stars instead of 5 was the ending. No spoilers...I just thought that the end could have been drawn out a little more. At times, it felt rushed...esp considering how thoroughly this horrific world was shown to us at the beginning of the book.
I highly recommend Vox. But maybe don't watch the news the entire time you're reading it...gotta keep your blood pressure down.
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