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Red Clocks
by Leni Zumas
Red Clocks is the story of 4 women in small-town Oregon and how their lives change after the US repeals Roe v. Wade and makes abortion illegal again. It sounds terrible, and it is, but it also has a lot of hope and a lot of storylines with powerful women thinking about and working towards what they want in life. It's literary chick-lit, tbh. For which I am so down (ahahaha).
I got a free audiobook through libro.fm (check 'em out bbs), but this isn't really an audiobook kind of book. At least for me. It's got these historical tidbits about a female explorer from the 1800s and they're the weirdest, most experimental parts of the book and they show up between each of the 4 main characters' POV switches and the audiobook just didn't make sense like that. Reading it was easier to understand. The explorer stuff was mostly confusing and boring, tbh, but it does set a historical precedent for doing what you want even if society doesn't want you to. The characters can still be happy and resist even if society/the government bars you from important shit.
A lot of people keep comparing Red Clocks to The Handmaid's Tale, which I don't agree with. The world in THT could be a much more developed dystopian emerging from the RC world, and that's what makes RC scary, but not without hope. I could see characters like Ro being the creator of slogans like "nolite te bastardes carborundorum" that could keep people inspired through the dark-ass days of rights & freedoms being destroyed. But also, because Zumas's world is more hopeful in general, I could see a future for Red Clocks that never goes that bleak, a future in which Ro & Susan fight and win. Honestly, it's a world super similar to our own and it helped soothe some of my anxieties about the future.
So yeah, if you like books with complicated female/fem characters, that emphasizes how terrible & complicit men often can be (but not always, geez, *eyeroll*), and has a pretty obvious vaginal symbol on the cover (YAY), this is your book yo.
I got a free audiobook through libro.fm (check 'em out bbs), but this isn't really an audiobook kind of book. At least for me. It's got these historical tidbits about a female explorer from the 1800s and they're the weirdest, most experimental parts of the book and they show up between each of the 4 main characters' POV switches and the audiobook just didn't make sense like that. Reading it was easier to understand. The explorer stuff was mostly confusing and boring, tbh, but it does set a historical precedent for doing what you want even if society doesn't want you to. The characters can still be happy and resist even if society/the government bars you from important shit.
A lot of people keep comparing Red Clocks to The Handmaid's Tale, which I don't agree with. The world in THT could be a much more developed dystopian emerging from the RC world, and that's what makes RC scary, but not without hope. I could see characters like Ro being the creator of slogans like "nolite te bastardes carborundorum" that could keep people inspired through the dark-ass days of rights & freedoms being destroyed. But also, because Zumas's world is more hopeful in general, I could see a future for Red Clocks that never goes that bleak, a future in which Ro & Susan fight and win. Honestly, it's a world super similar to our own and it helped soothe some of my anxieties about the future.
So yeah, if you like books with complicated female/fem characters, that emphasizes how terrible & complicit men often can be (but not always, geez, *eyeroll*), and has a pretty obvious vaginal symbol on the cover (YAY), this is your book yo.