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A review by greenbeanreads
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
5.0
This was an instant favourite just chefs kiss we love it here. Also possibly got my out of my reading slump.
I went into this book knowing almost nothing and I think that works best for this, but I have seen some criticism of the book so I’m going to chat about some of the main issues I’ve seen in case you’re deliberating.
It seems to me a lot of the complaints of this book range from feeling detached from the characters and that it’s too experimentally and conceptually feminist in its tones. I felt neither of these things, though I can understand why those views might exist.
Zumas writes essentially in five perspectives, and each chapter for the character is short, usually only a couple of pages. In that sense, I never felt latched onto a specific character or like I was rooting for a specific character, but rather that I was seeing snippets of a character’s life that I could relate to. Nonetheless, I loved every single character almost as if I listening to a friend tell me her story.
As for being too conceptual and experimental, the description is very accurate. It’s speculative fiction and of course it’s not going to be an easy read because it’s meant to be different and pose a warning to what our reality could become. The realities these characters face is dreadful, but that’s the point. It’s the concept of how our lives as women would be should our rights be taken away, so I’m confused why ‘conceptual’ is used against the book.
In summary, my two cents is that it’s definitely worth the read if the description and idea grabbed you. It definitely was for me!
I went into this book knowing almost nothing and I think that works best for this, but I have seen some criticism of the book so I’m going to chat about some of the main issues I’ve seen in case you’re deliberating.
It seems to me a lot of the complaints of this book range from feeling detached from the characters and that it’s too experimentally and conceptually feminist in its tones. I felt neither of these things, though I can understand why those views might exist.
Zumas writes essentially in five perspectives, and each chapter for the character is short, usually only a couple of pages. In that sense, I never felt latched onto a specific character or like I was rooting for a specific character, but rather that I was seeing snippets of a character’s life that I could relate to. Nonetheless, I loved every single character almost as if I listening to a friend tell me her story.
As for being too conceptual and experimental, the description is very accurate. It’s speculative fiction and of course it’s not going to be an easy read because it’s meant to be different and pose a warning to what our reality could become. The realities these characters face is dreadful, but that’s the point. It’s the concept of how our lives as women would be should our rights be taken away, so I’m confused why ‘conceptual’ is used against the book.
In summary, my two cents is that it’s definitely worth the read if the description and idea grabbed you. It definitely was for me!