Vox by Christina Dalcher
Damn it! My boss (number 2 at my agency) recommended this book to me. She was so excited when Amazon dropped it to $1.99 on Monday and ran over and told me so I could get it. I am so going to lie about enjoying this book because I am not dumb enough to tell her how I really feel about it. But I can tell you all. This book started off so strong and then just spiraled into mess. It didn’t help that I […]
Vox by Christina Dalcher
CBR11 Bingo: #history/schmistory Vox was an interesting reading experience. I was completely absorbed by it, but really only liked about half of it, and very much hated the ending. And yet, I think I would recommend it…but not to everyone. Does that even make sense? In a potential future (or is it now?), our extremely conservative right-wing religious government decides that they’ve had just about enough of women. All women are ordered to leave their jobs in order to maintain their homes and take care […]
Vox by Christina Dalcher
I will be honest, I disliked this book so much that I almost feel like I can’t even begin to write a fair review of it. That said. I thought this book was so shamelessly bad, I am made worse by having read it. This book is about a not-too-distant version of the world in which a Conservative Christian government has taken over and installed tech on women to keep them from reading, writing, or speaking more than 100 words per day, including children. The […]
