Hello, Fellow Readers!
I just finished the book Vox by Christina Dalcher.
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.
I picked this book up at the library because I was intrigued by the premise with everything going on in America right now. I was reading it during the Kavanaugh hearings and I was actually spooked at times by the similarities in a fiction book and events in real life. In the book, Americans kept saying, “It won’t happen in American. It can’t happen America.” But it did. The first third of the book had me hooked and emotional. I couldn’t put it down. I was behind the main character 100%. The first tow thirds of the book I would give 5 stars.
The last third of the book was a big disappointment. It was as if the author forgot about the heroine and was back to men saving they day. The author also made it seem as if a man isn’t all masculine, beat ’em up, drag out fight for you, they aren’t worth it. Jean’s husband finds out a terrible truth and basically says, “OK.” That was it, he was fine. Also, her son disappears and Jean is OK and doesn’t have any emotions/issues about her son leaving. When it comes to the men in her family, the main character could care less.
So the last third of this book was so blah and out of touch with the first part of the book, I am giving this book a 2.5 overall. That’s how yuck the last part was to read.