Sabine’s “damsel-in-distress” voice was grating on the ears and nerves. Especially the “Ruben Pharaoh” voice perpetuated by the voice actor for Lin. We start with a few core characters, and their development is okay then, there are suddenly fifteen characters and their development is so hurried and unfortunate that you just don’t even care anymore to even keep track of who everyone is, and what their overall role may be in the plot. That in itself was enough to make me stop listening, but I really hate leaving stories unfinished, so I continued. But this novel quickly devolves from a minimally empowering dystopia, to a garbage fire of meek women who must be saved by the acts of men. I was intrigued by the dystopian concept, and the acknowledgment of the power and gifts of women. I had read several poor reviews before selecting it, but I decided to give it a chance. Before She Sleeps takes the patriarchal practices of female seclusion and veiling, gender selection, and control over women’s bodies, amplifying and distorting them in a truly terrifying way to imagine a world of post-religious authoritarianism. This dystopian novel from one of Pakistan’s most talented writers is a modern-day parable, The Handmaid’s Tale for repressed women in Muslim countries everywhere. As it turns out, not even the most influential men can shield them from discovery and the dangers of ruthless punishment. Secretly protected by the highest echelons of power, they emerge only at night to provide the rich and elite of Green City a type of commodity no one can buy: intimacy without sex. Yet there are some who resist, women who live in an underground collective and refuse to be part of the system.
The government uses terror and technology to control its people, and now females must take multiple husbands to have children as quickly as possible.
In modern, beautiful Green City, the capital of Southwest Asia, gender selection, war, and disease have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmingly low levels. “Fans of The Handmaid’s Tale won’t want to miss this one.” ( Publishers Weekly) “A haunting dystopian thriller” from the acclaimed author of A Season for Martyrs
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