BOOK REVIEW: XX BY ANGELA CHADWICK

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Title: XX
Author: Angela Chadwick
Published: 2018
Language: English 
Pages: 384
Rating: 2/5

Summary:

A new science breakthrough allows ovum to ovum fertilisation and a couple signs up for the first human trial, allowing them to carry a child that is both of their genetic offspring.

Review:

I was really interested in this book because I generally love dystopian novels, especially when they have feminist tones, and although I think the idea of this story is excellent, the execution is less so.

I think the themes this book discusses are interesting and there are several thought provoking scenes in here. I also like how the book portrays how most things are never really black and white, there's nuance to most things and it's important to take that into consideration.

Although the concept of this story is interesting, I was much less invested in the story than I thought I was going to be. I didn't love the way any of the characters were written, I think sometimes it gets a little repetitive and there were parts that felt dragged out. I was also a little disappointed because I think this book had a lot of potential for really digging deep into several topics and it didn't feel like it ever truly did.

I do think that claiming this book is "a pacy dystopian thriller" is incorrect. There are dystopian tendencies in this story, but it's not outright dystopia (it's set in our world, in our time, but with this slight modification). It's not particularly thrillery either, and it's not fast paced; it actually felt kind of slow to me.

I also felt like the ending came about very abruptly and left a lot of loose threads (some of which were the things in the story I was most interested in and I was dying to find out more about, and then we never do). So in conclusion, I think this was just kind of OK. Maybe I went into it with the wrong expectations and that's what threw me off, but it just did not end up being as interesting as I'd hoped. 

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