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adventurous
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
4.25
I read this for a book club. It was hard for me to get into, but I did eventually get there. The part I liked best about this book was the worldbuilding. I especially enjoyed the author's approach to imagining tech that really doesn't work the way you want it to, or that you have to McGyver to make useful, or that wasn't made with you in mind. Even in other dystopias involving inadequate technology, I feel that Onyebuchi's approach is uniquely nuanced.
All of the big emotional inflections in the book definitely hit, for example, "Chinelo's death, Agu's death, finding out that Onyii killed Ify's mother and lied about where she came from . Even so, there were a lot of characters, in my opinion, and I kept forgetting who was who.
All of the big emotional inflections in the book definitely hit, for example, "
Graphic: Self harm, Gun violence, Death, Blood, Child death, Chronic illness, Torture, Hate crime, Murder, Confinement, Cursing, Violence, War, Death of parent, Body horror, Bullying, Abandonment, Medical content, Stalking, Animal death, and Addiction
Moderate: Racial slurs, Islamophobia, Drug use, Drug abuse, Slavery, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Terminal illness, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Cancer
Minor: Misogyny, Domestic abuse, Colonisation, and Sexism
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