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catsarenice84 's review for:
Red Clocks
by Leni Zumas
As a prochoice feminist, I really wanted to like this book, but it is so poorly written. The unnamed character gimmick is meant to be some type of every woman thing, but it is just needlessly confusing and makes you care even less about the characters. The strike through editing bits were unnecessary. I lost track of how many times the biographer threw stuff against the wall/destroyed something out of rage (Over ten at least. Where was the editor on this? Also, I imagine the first time she had to clean up after flinging oranges against the wall she would have learned her lesson, but apparently not 🤷🏻♀️ .) Also, how many times can the wife be chowing down on hidden chocolate bars or fantasizing about driving off a cliff (the first time it can have deeper significance, but by the sixth or seventh time it is just eye roll inducing)? The repeat mentions of pubic hair and weird slang for vaginas were gross and tedious as well. It doesn't read like a novel, and you end up not caring about any of the characters (Mattie is the only semi-okay character; the wife never should have dropped out of law school or married her loser husband, the biographer needs to get some hobbies to get over her baby fever, and the mender/witch is just crazy-why would I care about these characters?). In terms of feminist dystopias, The Handmaid's Tale, When She Woke, and The Power are all better. This book needed to go through quite a bit more editing before being published because it reads like the bad first draft of a MFA student who is being bankrolled by their parents while they pretend to be artistic and deep.