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kendramantz 's review for:
Red Clocks
by Leni Zumas
Quick, easy read, but there wasn’t too much of a storyline and it didn’t really get into the implications of making abortion illegal. The only two interesting and important storylines were the biographer and the daughter, specifically the biographer juggling her strong belief in a woman’s right to choose with her desire to have a child of her own. Otherwise, the wife’s story was really nothing special, the mender’s was completely anticlimactic, and the explorer’s story just didn’t fit in at all (besides maybe attempting to give an undertone of strong women??). Perhaps the most disappointing part of this book was that absolutely no one was fighting or trying to change the new societal norms. That’s a backbone of dystopian novels.
Unfortunately my takeaway from this book is that, if the US were to outlaw abortion, life would go on as normal for everyone. And that is a terrible message to give women like me facing this very same reality.
Unfortunately my takeaway from this book is that, if the US were to outlaw abortion, life would go on as normal for everyone. And that is a terrible message to give women like me facing this very same reality.