I've recently read Christine Dalcher's books and have thoughts...

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I've recently read Christine Dalcher's Vox, Q and finished Femlandia yesterday. I have really mixed feelings and no one I know has read them - hoping for people on here!

She has some intriguing scenarios but for Vox at least I felt the book fell apart in the last third. In a couple of the books there is an incident in the protagonist's youth which influenced the present day (Q in particular) but it seems a bit too much of a stretch that this was the cause of things (trying to avoid obvious spoilers though happy to stop being cryptic).

Generally I've enjoyed the set up and world building but am not 100% convinced by the way the stories progressed. I'd love to hear other people's thoughts.

I've only read Vox, I thought the premise was brilliant and it could have been a fantastic feminist novel. However, the whole thing fell apart and it ended up being a disappointment.
The final shoot-out chapters had me skim reading and the fact that a man 'saved the day' was just bullshit.

That mirrors my feelings. The son's about face and killing off of the husband so she could head off with the hot Italian really didn't ring true either. So much potential, and yet...

I still haven't recovered from the bizarrely pointless chimpanzee attack.

Vox had a great premise thrown away almost immediately into shenanigans involving a hot Italian. And to end with our heroine not learning anything and running off with the hot Italian after her dull husband (who was actually a hero) died off page was so feeble.

Sorry I didn't see this but snap!

It's a relief that I'm not alone in this - I found a lot of highly positive reviews online but almost nothing critical.