The basis of the book had a good and frightening concept, about a future of a country where women don’t have a say in anything. Not too complicated word structure was used. Okay, so since I listened to the book I try my best to judge the writing style as good as possible! Since there were a few science terms happening, I might have thought that it would be a bit harder to understand the story, but it was fine. The black and white photography helps to make that bold and sans serif font really stand out. I’m also a fan of the cover, since it’s so simple, yet stunning and every element is able to breathe properly. Since the book is written in first person view, it was an even better choice to listen to it as an audiobook. She was talking emotional, really doing a great job in portraying the protagonist.
I listened to it in German, so I can only talk about how I liked the German narrator.
I’m glad that the speeding up option exists, I wish Netflix had that option as well. I sped up the audiobook to 1,5 speed since the narrator was talking too slow for me, but I guess that’s just an audiobook thing for me. In this case, I chose VOX, because it sounded like a “modern” Handmaid’s Tale, although that story is modern in its own way. I’m rarely listening to audiobooks except when audible gives me one book for free. But time is running low, since Jean noticed multiple problems surfacing her life. With the president’s brother well-being on the line, the government has no other choice than to give in to Jeans orders, taking off the word counting bracelet off her and her daughter Sonia during her time working on the project. When the president’s brother falls ill with a stroke and can’t speak properly anymore due to the stroke had damaged the language center, Jean is tasked to find a serum to cure this problem. The story starts when the new laws are only one year in power. Jean has to experience how her older son Steve turns himself against his mother and starts thinking that the new order is better this way.
The Youth gets recruited and brainwashed right away from school. In the close future of the United States, women got deprived of all their rights, they aren’t allowed to work or think for themselves anymore. Not one single woman in the United States is allowed to do so and a word counting bracelet makes sure to not speak more than that. Jean McClellan is a former researcher studying aphasia, the loss of language, and isn’t allowed to speak more than 100 words a day.
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