#it bills itself as a sci-fi style dystopia in a parallel united states

[bisexualamy]

i kept going back on forth on if the book i’m reading is any good but now it’s committed the sin of a child character so precocious it belongs in one of those fake tumblr stories from 2010.

do you ever read a novel and just know it belongs on the reese witherspoon book club list? this book claims to say so many things about Rehabilitation and Queerness and the Slope Towards Fascism but it’s so shallow it barely nicks the surface of them. it’s a story about Coping after a big event and Grief which is usually my catnip but it’s so sterile it’s so hard to get into. like yes i guess your book is Queer™ and Subversive™ because your MC is a lesbian into bdsm. this book is about resistance in exactly the way suburban democrats say it.

#‘why do you keep reading it then ren’ i’m 60% through it and i have to know how they land this #the marketing for this book and the synopsis are sooooo misleading #it bills itself as a sci-fi style dystopia in a parallel united states #but that is just window dressing for—at this point—200 pages of nearly all inner monologue #it keeps teasing interesting things and then walking away from them #for those interested the book is ‘i keep my exoskeletons to myself’ #maybe the ending will be worth it but i’m not hopeful #catch me going through the 2-star GR reviews on this book is less than a week #ren speaks