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Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
4.0

Wow this book!

Five woman in different stages of life in a world where abortion is now illegal and charged as murder. Four of the characters are living in this time period where it is illegal to get an abortion it is about to be illegal to adopt a baby if there are not two parents to raise said baby.

The whole time I was reading this I was blown away at how close to our current political state we are to this book not being completely fiction. I found the four women we follow so very fascinating. I felt like I connected with each and every one of them.

The only reason why I knocked this down from a five star is because of the women not supporting women and the fifth character who we were only getting snippets from the book one of our other characters was writing.

I think that this is the type of thing that more young women and older women need to read so that we as women can stand up for each other. I will definitely be looking into more works from this author.