"Set in an America where 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 100 words daily, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial—this can't happen here. Not in America. Not to her.
This is just the beginning.
Soon women can no longer hold jobs. Girls are no longer taught to read or write. 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.
But this is not the end.
For herself, her daughter, and every woman silenced, Jean will reclaim her voice."
My overall thoughts are that this book, whose premise was so
intriguing to me, didn’t go far enough to match my expectations. I wanted it to
be so much more than it was. In some ways, it felt like Dalcher was trying to
write a “Handmaid’s Tale” read-alike, but Jean just cannot live up to the
standard of Offred. The story is too short and doesn’t really explore the world
too much. Like with “Handmaid’s Tale,” Jean has little interaction with the
resistance, in fact she didn’t even realize there could be one, and so much of
the story is focused on Jean’s own reception of and reaction to the Pure
Movement. Since I didn’t care for Jean, I cared little for her comments or
feelings on the whole situation and so the book was really just me trying to
figure out how this movement would be brought down, or if it even would be. So,
would I recommend it? Yes, to those who like reading dystopias or are
interested in feminist literature. But otherwise, I’d say people could pass on
it and they wouldn’t be missing much.
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