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The Choice
by Claire Wade
Reads like Baby’s First Dystopia.
Has the bare bones of an interesting story, but is executed poorly - every character is black or white, goodies and baddies. Motivations either aren’t shown or followed through properly. If you’re looking to ape Black Mirror, it needs far more subtlety to give the reader an impact. We need to believe this could happen - we need to see something of the sliding scale that allowed it to happen, and none of that is present here.
As readers, we are expected to believe this regime has taken force in just six years, but we don’t know why or how or what led to it. There’s no subtlety, no shades of grey, and any character who supports the regime is a baddie, everyone else is a goodie who hates and fears the regime - there’s no in-between, so how did this take effect so deeply and in such a short space of time?
The regime seems to focus on punishing women, but we don’t know why. The regime has a focus on health and well being, applied to all, but only women are taken away or put in the Shame Boxes, women are subject to modesty dressing - only women are shown in the prison. Why? We have no idea, it just *is*.
Has the bare bones of an interesting story, but is executed poorly - every character is black or white, goodies and baddies. Motivations either aren’t shown or followed through properly. If you’re looking to ape Black Mirror, it needs far more subtlety to give the reader an impact. We need to believe this could happen - we need to see something of the sliding scale that allowed it to happen, and none of that is present here.
As readers, we are expected to believe this regime has taken force in just six years, but we don’t know why or how or what led to it. There’s no subtlety, no shades of grey, and any character who supports the regime is a baddie, everyone else is a goodie who hates and fears the regime - there’s no in-between, so how did this take effect so deeply and in such a short space of time?
The regime seems to focus on punishing women, but we don’t know why. The regime has a focus on health and well being, applied to all, but only women are taken away or put in the Shame Boxes, women are subject to modesty dressing - only women are shown in the prison. Why? We have no idea, it just *is*.