The Stepford Wives

There is something wrong with the women in Stepford, Bobbie & Joanna don't know the cause, but can they escape before they change too?

This book made my skin crawl.

I was skeptical when I started it because it is quite a short book, but this author knows how to pack the book with everything it needs to tell the story correctly and grip the reader. Since I already had an idea of the town's secret (it can't be called spoiling if the book is over 30 years old) I was not too shocked by all the turns of events, even more so when I read the forward of the book, but there were still many things to made my jaw drop. I will confess to wandering around my home in thought for over 10 minutes, just thinking about what I had read.

Even though the book is over 40 years old, I feel the content is still relevant to the problems of today. While reading the book, I did not know how old the book was (although Women's Liberation Movement should have clued me in), but it still felt modern and probable in our day, especially since there are female robots in Japan.

My one criticism for the book is the formatting of it, and I'm not even sure if it is just an e-book thing or if it is the same in the physical copies. I would have liked a more substantial break between scene or day changes because one paragraph takes place during at night and the next might paragraph might be Joanna talking to Bobbie at a cafe! It could be jarring at times. I'm not asking for more chapters, but an extra space or a line between paragraphs taking place in different scenes would be helpful.