Luckily, Vox is an entertaining and chillingly plausible thriller.
Expectations are only heightened by very obvious comparisons with Margaret Atwood’s seminal The Handmaid’s Tale – a novel which is very much back in the public eye, thanks to Hulu’s TV adaptation. Any book that generates this sort of media interest has a lot to live up to. I picked up Vox on a whim at a local supermarket, and at the time I was completely unaware of the storm that had developed in the book’s release. For herself, her daughter, and for every woman silenced, Jean will reclaim her voice.
Even more terrifyingly, young girls are no longer taught to read or write. Almost overnight, bank accounts are frozen, passports are taken away and seventy million women lose their jobs. Now the new government is in power, everything has changed. Any more, and a thousand volts of electricity will course through her veins. “Jean McClellan spends her time in almost complete silence, limited to just one hundred words a day.
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