Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

The Employees by Olga Ravn

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displacedcactus's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

This is a short book told in a sort of epistolary format -- everything is excerpts from employee interviews. It does a good job of being unsettling without being really graphic, so it could be a great read if you're looking for something Halloween-season-appropriate that probably won't give you nightmares. It's kind of like if Annihilation and Finna/Defekt had a baby. Each excerpt is short, most are only a paragraph and the longest were barely over a page long on my tablet, so it's really easy to read if you only have a little time, too. That said, the format means that while you get multiple snippets from some employees interspersed throughout, there's no real way to latch on to the characters. If it had been any longer, it would have been difficult to go along for the ride with the format, in my opinion.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Xenophobia, and Slavery

Minor: Child death

The xenophobia is between the human and humanoid (lab-created people) workers, and the slavery CW is for the fact that I am pretty sure

the humanoids, being grown specifically to work being immortalish and being capable of being essentially recreated any time their bodies are destroyed, are kept in a form of slavery enforced by programming.