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Graphic: Death, Drug abuse
Moderate: Medical trauma, Death of parent, Pregnancy
Minor: Ableism, Cancer, Death, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Transphobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Colonisation, War, Classism
Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, War, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic
My issue is mostly about the books take on logistics of a climate change-ravaged world. It took everything in me to be able to suspend disbelief over and over while reading along.
How could sending a manned shuttle from space to earth and back EVERY WEEK to get “fresh produce” be at all efficient??? if there are freaking spas and luxury amenities on the space station, they couldn’t add a few hydroponics bays????????? If there is practically no society anymore outside the bubbles, how are they maintaining a launch site to get back to the space station?
Somehow freaking Xanax is a magical drug that can target specific memories to erase? There’s a whole scene where the character slowly loses just the memories the leaders want her to lose. At first I thought there was like a complicated psychological system, but they just use a vent to somehow waft Xanax into everyone’s room? WHAT
And biggest of all, the ending. Finally, all the women in power in the NYC bubble realize they shouldn’t be drugging thousands of women and children, and I’m pretty sure they specifically imply they don’t want to drug them anymore because that takes away the woman’s ability to choose and consent. But then, the head doctor of the bubble helped two woman sneak out to the surface and never ask any of the other women and children if they want to leave their fucked up lies-filled bubble??? So they take away their ability to choose and consent AGAIN and that fact is just brushed aside like it’s no big issue?
And then the two escapees WELDED THE ONLY EXIT SHUT SO NO ONE WILL EVER BE ABLE TO LEAVE AGAIN????????? I can’t.
This book definitely kept my mind working, trying to fill the numerous gaping plot holes.
Graphic: Ableism, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Classism
Minor: Rape, Sexual assault
Graphic: Ableism, Drug abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Abandonment
Moderate: Cancer, Death, Slavery, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Toxic friendship
Minor: Self harm
Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual content, Medical content, Grief, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Classism
Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Dysphoria
Minor: Addiction, Biphobia, Cancer, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Infertility, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic
Graphic: Confinement, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Suicide, Pregnancy, Gaslighting
Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Grief, Sexual harassment, Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Vomit, Alcohol, War, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic
In a way, this felt more realistic than other dystopian novels.
I wouldn't re-read this but I would be up for an ad hoc book club hangout to talk through the book itself.
Moderate: Sexual assault, Transphobia