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melannrosenthal 's review for:
Red Clocks
by Leni Zumas
Oh boy. I was disappointed. The writing style is not at all easy to get into and even though I sped through the second half of the book my motivation was fueled by the topic, not the story.
The book Ro/Miss/The Biographer is writing about the Arctic explorer seemed wholly erroneous (yes I did notice how her research was rejected because she was a woman) and the ties between the 4 main female character was flimsy at best. I found it wildly irritating that within each character's chapter they'd only be referred to as "the Wife/Daughter/Biographer/Mender" even though they were named their names by other characters in other places........ it was perhaps a dystopian trope that went over my head?
The idea here, the 28th Amendment, the "Personhood Amendment" giving the right to life to a fetus and threatening charges of murder and manslaughter to women and doctors who dare terminate a pregnancy- that idea is horrifying and I was totally on board for a book focusing on such a plot. Though I found the execution here severely lacking, trying to hard to be something more than it is. Sentences were frequently abrupt and repetitive with phrases previously said causing the book to be far too long. I would have loved to see this as a set of 4 short stories so that every detail included would have to be utterly necessary in describing each woman's life/outcome.
The book Ro/Miss/The Biographer is writing about the Arctic explorer seemed wholly erroneous (yes I did notice how her research was rejected because she was a woman) and the ties between the 4 main female character was flimsy at best. I found it wildly irritating that within each character's chapter they'd only be referred to as "the Wife/Daughter/Biographer/Mender" even though they were named their names by other characters in other places........ it was perhaps a dystopian trope that went over my head?
The idea here, the 28th Amendment, the "Personhood Amendment" giving the right to life to a fetus and threatening charges of murder and manslaughter to women and doctors who dare terminate a pregnancy- that idea is horrifying and I was totally on board for a book focusing on such a plot. Though I found the execution here severely lacking, trying to hard to be something more than it is. Sentences were frequently abrupt and repetitive with phrases previously said causing the book to be far too long. I would have loved to see this as a set of 4 short stories so that every detail included would have to be utterly necessary in describing each woman's life/outcome.