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The Hush by Sara Foster
challenging
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
4.0
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This review will appear on my site on December 6, 2021.
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In a post-COVID Britain, babies are now being born without taking a breath. These incidents have slowly risen over time where it is nearing one in two babies being born stillborn, even with healthy mothers and pregnancies.
In this dystopian world, citizens have slowly been giving up their freedoms without much concern (down to pregnancy tests monthly for those females starting at age 14!). And now young pregnant girls have started to go missing. Emma is a midwife who has seen the instances of still birth babies rise dramatically, and now her own daughter Lainey is pregnant. Because of this, both of their worlds have changed to the frightening unknown.
This novel gives a realistic feel for how things could actually happen if COVID worsened and spread to the unborn and affect the population in a grand scale. But here in the US, the fallout from a rise in governmental power and lack of general freedoms would cause anarchy and chaos on the grand scale.
The Hush gives the reader a great deal of things to think about in terms of the British government and our actual world. This novel leaves you thinking are we actually headed in this direction, pandemic or not? Book clubs would have quite the conversations in regards to this novel.
The Hush is recommended.
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This review will appear on my site on December 6, 2021.
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In a post-COVID Britain, babies are now being born without taking a breath. These incidents have slowly risen over time where it is nearing one in two babies being born stillborn, even with healthy mothers and pregnancies.
In this dystopian world, citizens have slowly been giving up their freedoms without much concern (down to pregnancy tests monthly for those females starting at age 14!). And now young pregnant girls have started to go missing. Emma is a midwife who has seen the instances of still birth babies rise dramatically, and now her own daughter Lainey is pregnant. Because of this, both of their worlds have changed to the frightening unknown.
This novel gives a realistic feel for how things could actually happen if COVID worsened and spread to the unborn and affect the population in a grand scale. But here in the US, the fallout from a rise in governmental power and lack of general freedoms would cause anarchy and chaos on the grand scale.
The Hush gives the reader a great deal of things to think about in terms of the British government and our actual world. This novel leaves you thinking are we actually headed in this direction, pandemic or not? Book clubs would have quite the conversations in regards to this novel.
The Hush is recommended.