Docile

By K.M. Szpara

Book Overview

K. M. Szpara's 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. There is no consent under capitalism. 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. Content warning: Docile contains forthright depictions and discussions of rape and sexual abuse.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250216338
• ISBN13: 9781250216335
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Love it.

Couldn’t put it down. Finished in one day.

Stunning and addictive

This book was splendid. A stark and refreshing examination of capitalism and the class divide. I couldn’t put it down

Couldn’t put it down.

It’s told through the points of view of both main characters and the abrupt switches in perspective throughout the development of this “relationship” were really interesting. I genuinely could not put this book down. Szpara made me scared and anxious and angry. All the emotions! FYI: obviously this is a mature book that deals with consent, force, manipulation, just mind breaking and bending all the way through.