VOX

Name: VOX
Rating: 4.03125 (32 reviews)

Christina Dalcher

Aug 2018 · HarperCollins UK

4.0

32 reviews

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‘Intelligent, suspenseful, provocative, and intensely disturbing – everything a great novel should be’ LEE CHILD

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

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‘Thought-provoking and thrilling. I was left speechless!’ WOMAN & HOME

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...

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4.0

32 reviews

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February 4, 2021

interesting premise that starts of strong for the first few pages but then derails into a cringe fest. spoiler: towards the middle to the end the main character Jean becomes completely unbearable. Everything is way too conveniently solved and for some reason the good guy characters needed 100+ extra special skills to make them oh so unique. The bad guys were described as cunning on the surface only and the rest of the population lacked any complexity. So much of this novel was just convenient super smart heroine who is oddly irresistible to two heroic men (mind you a man in the end saves the day who turns out not only to be a great lover and scientist but have had two years in the army). overall, interesting premise but the writing really lacks

Adam Todd

November 11, 2024

A great premise of a novel and you can really start to see the parallels with the current direction of the US. The author does a great job setting the scene and describing the path to this situation. However, I think the ending was disappointing. Way too many things slotted into place too nicely and the action-packed conclusion was really quick.

Louise McSharry

September 11, 2019

Very much set in a Handmaid's Tale world with bad leaders and Christianity gone OT biblical. Found this made me rethink some comments on women in the workforce that would normally pass as unfortunate rather than as offensive as they are when seen to a logical conclusion. The mother's relationship with her different children is complex and really pulled at my emotions. Quite hectic at the finish, like an action movie with multiple rollercoaster endings, maybe my only critique. Would love to see onscreen

About the author

Christina Dalcher earned her doctorate in theoretical linguistics from Georgetown University, specializing in the phonetics of sound change in Italian and British dialects. She and her husband split their time between the American South and Naples, Italy. VOX is her debut novel.

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