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sarah984's review
adventurous
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
I liked the idea of the cybernetically enhanced race, and the descriptions of that, along with the character’s major dilemma and the ending, were good. However, for a short story, there were a lot of other things thrown in that seemed kind of pointless (the unpleasant Luddite characters for example) and most of the characters are pretty two-dimensional.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug use, Medical content, Self harm, and Transphobia
Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Gore, Religious bigotry, and Xenophobia
Minor: Vomit
The self-harm is in the context of performing an impromptu surgery on herself (needing to remove a damaged subdermal chip) The transphobia involves multiple characters repeatedly misgendering nonbinary characters
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