A review by brianna_4pawsandabook
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
4.0
This book is haunting when you think that this could actually happen. The Handmaid's tale is far enough distanced from our actual reality that we don't really think "oh, this is the direction our country is actually heading". Throughout the entire book, this is what I was thinking while reading Red Clocks. They talk about so many things that are LITERALLY HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IN CONGRESS.
4 women in a small town in Oregon are dealing in their own way with the 28th amendment to the Constitution, the Personhood amendment, outlawing abortion, in vitro fertilization as well as a law saying that only families that have a mother and father are allowed to adopt. (slightly askew, because if abortion were illegal, odds are there would be a lot more babies that would need to be adopted, so being picky wouldn't be good for the foster system, but that is never addressed).
The only reason this is getting 4 stars instead of 5, is I questioned some of the writer's choices when it came to her writing style. I wasn't a fan of how the characters weren't referred to by their names very often, but rather by "The Biographer", "The Wife", "The Daughter" and "The Mender". I know that there was a stylistic choice there, I just didn't see or understand the merit of it. The way the character's stories overlapped was also slightly confusing in some parts, and I felt like they were overlapping, just for the story's sake, and not necessarily to drive the plot. But overall, this book is so good, and a necessary commentary on the state of our nation, and what could happen in our country if women don't stand up and speak up for themselves.
4 women in a small town in Oregon are dealing in their own way with the 28th amendment to the Constitution, the Personhood amendment, outlawing abortion, in vitro fertilization as well as a law saying that only families that have a mother and father are allowed to adopt. (slightly askew, because if abortion were illegal, odds are there would be a lot more babies that would need to be adopted, so being picky wouldn't be good for the foster system, but that is never addressed).
The only reason this is getting 4 stars instead of 5, is I questioned some of the writer's choices when it came to her writing style. I wasn't a fan of how the characters weren't referred to by their names very often, but rather by "The Biographer", "The Wife", "The Daughter" and "The Mender". I know that there was a stylistic choice there, I just didn't see or understand the merit of it. The way the character's stories overlapped was also slightly confusing in some parts, and I felt like they were overlapping, just for the story's sake, and not necessarily to drive the plot. But overall, this book is so good, and a necessary commentary on the state of our nation, and what could happen in our country if women don't stand up and speak up for themselves.