She always did the most she could to buck the system, but of course, there's only so much one can do in this sort of scenario. Jean, our protagonist, was an exceptionally compelling character and I was impressed to see how she handled the variety of pretty horrible situations she was put into. There were some characters that also made me furious and made me want to throw the book (preferably at them), but this only added more of an emotional to the story that I appreciated. I particularly liked seeing the different types of male characters that Dalcher included and the different variety of reactions they might have to the restrictions on women, with some men that just went along with everything whether they agreed or not, some that opposed it, and some that were actively all for it. Still, the events of this book do point to a lot of issues that sparked the one-hundred word limit and how women are treated, something that I think makes this book a fantastic discussion-starter or book club choice.Īs far as characters go, there was a pretty good mix of horrible characters, decent characters, and majorly grey characters. There is some background provided, but it's still such a hard-to-believe idea that it would have helped to know more about exactly how it happened. I wish that there had been a bit more background as to how the present events of the world came about or something to give this book slightly more grounding at the beginning. There were certain themes or messages that just felt as if they were being hammered in and started to take away from the story at times. I really enjoyed this book, but I do think it is one that is better at being a cautionary tale as its primary goal, and a good story as its second goal. I found myself so engaged in this story and not wanting to put it down, which is something that really gave the book an edge despite the fact that the story itself sometimes felt slightly lacking. This book reads like a dire warning of what could happen if things in our world moved in a continuously negative and limiting direction, and it is one that will certainly leave its mark. The premise of Vox is a chilling one, make no mistake about that.

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