Vox by Christina Dalcher

The Conservative Party is in power and the U.S. has mandated that every woman and girl be fitted with a pretty version of a shock collar bracelet. When you speak the bracelet counts your words and after your one hundred a day allotment every word you speak, you will be in pain. For Jean, a respected bio researcher and mother of three boys and a young girl, this lack of freedom is killing her. When an opportunity arises that will remove the bracelets from herself and her daughter for the length of time the project exists, she jumps at the chance. What she soon finds after being reunited with her old research team and ex-lover is something so shocking that the world may never be the same again. This is a frightening look at a dystopic society that feels all too plausible and in a sense already silencing women in other countries. The thought of it happening in our society makes it scary - take away their voice and you take away their power. A stunning debut, similar in intensity to "A Handmaid's Tale" and sure to make more than a few women very angry.