Vox

De: Christina Dalcher

Narrado por: Julia Whelan

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S AND SHEREADS' BOOKS TO READ AFTER THE HANDMAID'S TALE

“[An] electrifying debut.”—O, The Oprah Magazine
“The real-life parallels will make you shiver.”—Cosmopolitan

Set in a United States in which half the population has been silenced, Vox is the harrowing, unforgettable story of what one woman will do to protect herself and her daughter.

On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed more than one hundred words per day, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial. This can't happen here. Not in America. Not to her.

Soon women are not permitted to hold jobs. Girls are not taught to read or write. Females no longer have a voice. Before, the average person spoke sixteen thousand words each day, but now women have only one hundred to make themselves heard.

For herself, her daughter, and every woman silenced, Jean will reclaim her voice.

This is just the beginning...not the end.

One of Good Morning America's “Best Books to Bring to the Beach This Summer”
One of PopSugar, Refinery29, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Real Simple, i09, and Amazon's Best Books to Read in August 2018

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PRAISE FOR VOX

“Christina Dalcher’s debut novel, set in a recognizable near future and sure to beg comparisons to Margaret Atwood’s dystopian The Handmaid’s Tale, asks: if the number of words you could speak each day was suddenly and severely limited, what would you do to be heard? A novel ripe for the era of #MeToo, VOX (Berkley) presents an exaggerated scenario of women lacking a voice: in the United States, they are subject to a hundred-word limit per day (on average, a human utters about 16,000). Considering the threat of a society in which children like the protagonist’s six-year-old daughter are deprived of language, VOX highlights the urgency of movements like #MeToo, but also of the basic importance of language.”—Vanity Fair

“The females in Dalcher’s electrifying debut are permitted to speak just 100 words a day—and that’s especially difficult for the novel’s protagonist, Jean, a neurolinguist. A futurist thriller that feels uncomfortably plausible.”—O, The Oprah Magazine

“In Christina Dalcher’s Vox, women are only allowed to speak 100 words a day. Sounds pretty sci-fi, but the real-life parallels will make you shiver.”—Cosmopolitan

“Vox is a real page-turner that will appeal to people with big imaginations.”—Refinery29

“Fittingly, this book about women being silenced has got everybody talking and calling it The Handmaid's Tale for 2018.”—Bustle

“VOX is intelligent, suspenseful, provocative, and intensely disturbing—everything a great novel should be.”—Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“Chilling and gripping—a real page-turner.”—Karen Cleveland, New York Times bestselling author of Need to Know

“A bold, brilliant, and unforgettable debut.”—Alice Feeney, author of Sometimes I Lie

“With language crystalline and gleaming, and a narrative that really moves, Christina Dalcher both cautions and captivates. The names that come to mind are Margaret Atwood, George Orwell, and Aldous Huxley—had Orwell and Huxley had a taste of the information age. VOX is a book for the dystopic present. It woke me up.”—Melissa Broder, author of The Pisces

“[A] provocative debut...Dalcher’s novel carries an undeniably powerful message.”—Publishers Weekly

“A petrifying re-imagining of The Handmaid's Tale in the present and a timely reminder of the power and importance of language.”—Marta Bausells, ELLE UK

“This book will blow your mind. The Handmaid’s Tale meets Only Ever Yours meets The Power.”—Nina Pottell, Prima

Superb narration!

This story hits a llittle too close to home. Narrator is excellent. I read reviews before reading and expected to be disappointed...not at all. Had I been turning pages, I would have been doing so swiftly!!

Good And Rage Inducing

This book was so good, but also terrifying. I kept having to stop listening, I was so filled with rage. You know a book is good when it can induce such a visceral response. If you are a fan of The Handmaid’s Tale, this is definitely a book for you.

Easy to listen to and great for a solo road trip.

Hmm, this book was perfect for a solo road trip across New York State and meant I could listen to it from start to finish in one go, with my Starbucks and the road in front of me.

Firstly, Julia Whelan has to be one of the best narrators out there. I have listened to more books by searching via her name. She’s a keeper!!!

The story was quite different to Handmaid’s Tale, which is good for both authors, so it’s not really fair to compare it. The story wasn’t just about the 100 words neither and moved quickly onto her work, for the government, so the comparison to HMT is that it felt less traumatic.

I felt sorry for the main character’s husband. She and her family didn’t really even grieve for him and it was all a little convenient at the end.

Great potential, but fell short...

I felt like this was a romance novel clothed in a foggy dystopian dream that never quite seems to materialize. Towards the end, the plot continually gets clipped short, things become less believable, and it's not hard to predict at all. The premise is fantastic, but the latter half of the story just didn't do it for me.

a must

loved listening to the story with lots of intrigue. scary possibilities. really makes you think

WOW!!

This book was not what I expected and I really ended up enjoying it. Always kept me wondering what was going to happen next.

Great read

Great book! Kept me hooked from the very beginning. A good storyline, one you think could never happen in real life, but then again, that’s the point of the story. Definitely would recommend

couldn't stop listening

just wow. I couldn't stop listening to this tale of women rising above it all with a focus on one woman trying to balance it all: doing what is right for herself, for her country, and for her family. I don't think I've ever listened to an audiobook so fast.

AMAZING.

I binge listened to this in one sitting. I started it before heading to bed, but could not will myself to turn it off and try to sleep because I was hanging on every last word .. so yes I literally pulled an all-nighter just to continue listening to this. I just finished, and must confess that never before has a book made me cry .. until now. The final sentence Dalcher writes to conclude this dystopian (although all-too familiar) story was so incredibly beautiful, that it took a few moments for me to register that I was about to cry 😅🥺. Amazing, amazing, amazing book. I want to start it all over again!

Great new twist on a dystopian thriller

I enjoyed the imagination throughout this book and could not stop listening. A fun quick read or listen!