Docile -

K.M. Szpara

Tor.com

2020

480 páginas

16h 0m

ISBN-13: 9781250216151

There is no consent under capitalism

Docile is a science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that at turns seduces and startles.

To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of your service. To be a Docile is to sell yourself to pay your parents' debts and buy your children's future.

Elisha Wilder’s family has been ruined by debt, handed down to them from previous generations. His mother never recovered from the Dociline she took during her term as a Docile, so when Elisha decides to try and erase the family’s debt himself, he swears he will never take the drug that took his mother from him. Too bad his contract has been purchased by Alexander Bishop III, whose ultra-rich family is the brains (and money) behind Dociline and the entire Office of Debt Resolution. When Elisha refuses Dociline, Alex refuses to believe that his family’s crowning achievement could have any negative side effects―and is determined to turn Elisha into the perfect Docile without it.

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Infelizmente, esse livro realmente não é para mim. A história realmente parecia interessante no conceito, mas depois de ler quinze capítulos (e uma olhada curiosa no último capitulo, onde vi que o autor realmente fez algo que eu realmente não queria que acontecesse, independente do desenvolvimento da história/personagem) da mesma mesmice eu resolvi abandonar. Esse vai ser um daqueles livros controversos, que você ou ama ou odeia. Acabei na segunda categoria.