Vox

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 w...read more

Everyone needs to read this book. It was incredibly impactful.

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 ...read more

Imagine that a new President has been elected with the help of the extreme Christian right. So extreme, and so powerful, that they reverse over a hundred years of women's rights, and worse. Women are limited to 100 words a day, enforced by a "bracelet" they wear that administers worsening electric shocks for every word over the limit. Dalcher doesn't waste much time on the details of how this came about, which is fine, as they're largely besid...read more

A dystopian thriller that had me on the edge of my seat reading it. Written years ago but holds a potential outlook on the future