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“There’s a resistance?” The word sounds sweet as I say it. “Honey, there’s always a resistance.”

Vox by Christina Dalcher

January 14, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Christina Dalcher, vox

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:16 · Genres: Speculative Fiction · Tags: Christina Dalcher, vox ·
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Nolite te bastardes carborundorum

Vox by Christina Dalcher

January 9, 2019 by baxlala 1 Comment

Lately, I’ve been escaping into sci-fi, fantasy, and romance novels so often that I felt I needed a dose of reality. Vox might have been too much reality. Parts of it infuriated me so much that I had to put the book in the freezer down to allow my blood pressure to drop. So, not super relaxing, but it was good. Vox is told in the same vein as The Handmaid’s Tale, wherein our heroine is suffering through a grim dystopian future. Though there are […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: baxlala, Christina Dalcher, dystopian fiction, Fiction

baxlala's CBR11 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: baxlala, Christina Dalcher, dystopian fiction, Fiction ·
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