REVIEW

Vox, Christina Dalcher

Reviewed By
Andrea Thompson

Dr. Jean McClellan is a scientist called in from forced retirement to assist the government with a special project.  Jean is also the mother of two sons, and one precious daughter.  Not being able to write or speak does not mean that her mind will be silenced.

It's hard to decide what is more disturbing about the (re)emergence of oppression fiction; the content itself or the speed at which we come to accept that such events might be only a few revolutions in government away.  The new ‘horror’ is in acknowledging what is happening in the world today, in our supposedly advanced age. We’ve come so far, but so far in aid of whom exactly?

VOX terrifies through the subtle menace that is gradual change, incrementally reducing the size of a woman’s world and the freedom she has to move within it until she, like her sisters, is a prisoner within what was once at least familiar, if not entirely safe. The author’s economical writing style is put to good use, giving the reader enough scope to project themselves into the world of VOX that shadows all too closely our own.  It doesn’t need to finitely detail what it has always meant to be female, regardless of the era in which the gender identity is experienced.

American author Christina Dalcher has delivered a timely novel of what it is that drives us when everything that defines or has value is taken away.   Societal constraints are taken to the next level, relationships are tested, true natures are revealed.  VOX is truly chilling in so many different ways, and any sane human being would want to rise and object to such atrocities being inflicted upon half of its world population. Or so you would think.  It’s this suggested uncertainty that is the most unsettling.

BOOK DETAILS
BOOK INFORMATION
ISBN
9780440000785
Year of Publication
BLURB

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 to speak 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. 

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