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After Dark by Jayne Cowie
4.0
After Dark - Jayne Cowie
‘Sweet good natured ten year old boys became men, and men couldn’t be trusted.’
Men are under curfew, tagged and not allowed out after 7pm. Women are safe, women are free, women hold the power, no longer afraid to go out after dark.
The world has been changed. A woman is murdered late at night, but how could it be a man when a tag is a solid alibi? Isn’t it?
Wow! This book just totally turned my world on its head. The way we live and how we think. I was gripped from the first, chilling, thought provoking and uncomfortable to read, but utterly brilliant and compelling!
It feels near future, a bit dystopian in nature, everyone has a ‘slate’ which your whole life is on, it’s frankly terrifying and although it is set in the UK in my head I was in the USA, not sure why - probably because of the Handmaids Tale vibes.
The women’s POV’s in this book are all at different times in their lives and we see their responses to the curfew, moulded by their experiences, the effect on the men in their lives and the changes it brings to their futures. It is twisty, unnerving and tested my opinions, some of which changed as I read this.
It threw up a lot of interesting issues and I had some really good chats with my husband about this and a ‘what if’ scenario as if this were to happen!
A brilliant read which I really enjoyed and tested my comfort levels for sure!
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Thanks to Laura at Cornerstone, Penguin and Jayne Cowie for my copy of this book and spot on the tour
‘Sweet good natured ten year old boys became men, and men couldn’t be trusted.’
Men are under curfew, tagged and not allowed out after 7pm. Women are safe, women are free, women hold the power, no longer afraid to go out after dark.
The world has been changed. A woman is murdered late at night, but how could it be a man when a tag is a solid alibi? Isn’t it?
Wow! This book just totally turned my world on its head. The way we live and how we think. I was gripped from the first, chilling, thought provoking and uncomfortable to read, but utterly brilliant and compelling!
It feels near future, a bit dystopian in nature, everyone has a ‘slate’ which your whole life is on, it’s frankly terrifying and although it is set in the UK in my head I was in the USA, not sure why - probably because of the Handmaids Tale vibes.
The women’s POV’s in this book are all at different times in their lives and we see their responses to the curfew, moulded by their experiences, the effect on the men in their lives and the changes it brings to their futures. It is twisty, unnerving and tested my opinions, some of which changed as I read this.
It threw up a lot of interesting issues and I had some really good chats with my husband about this and a ‘what if’ scenario as if this were to happen!
A brilliant read which I really enjoyed and tested my comfort levels for sure!
✩✩✩✩
Thanks to Laura at Cornerstone, Penguin and Jayne Cowie for my copy of this book and spot on the tour