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A review by dramaqueentears
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
2.0
This book is a portrait of what life in America would be life after the passing of the Personhood Amendment. Under the new law, all abortion and IVF procedures are outlawed and crossing the border into Canada for an abortion is illegal. Planned Parenthood has been defunded and abortions are still performed in “term houses.” This book follows a handful of characters: a woman who is unhappy in her marriage, a single woman desperate to get pregnant, a witch who performs abortions and other naturopathic medicine, and the book is scattered with the story of an 1800’s polar ice explorer.
In today’s political climate surrounding anti-choice laws being passed, I thought this would be interesting. It wasn’t. I honestly can’t believe this got past a publisher. It’s bad, y’all.
The characters were flat, the writing was overinflated and difficult to take seriously, the dialogue was trash, and I kept wondering why Zumas refused to call her characters by their names. The entire plot of the wife was unnecessary and just annoying to read. I didn’t care one bit about the polar ice explorer. The concept was great but Red Clocks just didn’t do it for me. If you like awful writing scattered with incomplete sentences, maybe you’ll like it better.
In today’s political climate surrounding anti-choice laws being passed, I thought this would be interesting. It wasn’t. I honestly can’t believe this got past a publisher. It’s bad, y’all.
The characters were flat, the writing was overinflated and difficult to take seriously, the dialogue was trash, and I kept wondering why Zumas refused to call her characters by their names. The entire plot of the wife was unnecessary and just annoying to read. I didn’t care one bit about the polar ice explorer. The concept was great but Red Clocks just didn’t do it for me. If you like awful writing scattered with incomplete sentences, maybe you’ll like it better.