Vox, however, was a quite disappointing read: because Dalcher carefully coloured inside the lines of the genre, I could see the ending coming from miles away, and the so-called surprising character plot twists were everything but. It ticks all the boxes: the plot, the characters, the style, and the political message are exactly what you’d expect in a dystopian novel – and I was looking forward to reading it. The premise of Vox is a perfect example of dystopian fiction. Now she’s helping the government, she realises she has the opportunity to destroy it from within. One day, Jean is asked to help the President, because his brother was in an accident, can’t talk anymore, and, being an expert in this subject, Jean is the only person who can help him speak again. If they exceed that number, they receive electric shocks which increase in power the more they speak. Vox is about cognitive linguist Jean (also the profession of author Christina Dalcher), who is part of a society in which women can only speak one hundred words a day.
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