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Silk Fire by Zabé Ellor

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I was really excited to read this but it really needed a good edit. The world building is just poorly written information dump a lot of which doesn't make sense, people constantly have really forced, unnatural conversations which are clearly just there to give me information. The city planet has no sense of scale or geography and seemed to descend down a long way in ruins, it reminded me of mega city 1 but more nonsensical. Also, one district has been lost for like 10,000 years but they somehow haven't changed in anyway and still speak the same language. 
The planet is a matriarchy but they've just given the women the most stereotypical toxic male behaviour and vice versa. I think they were trying to be clever and make a point but they have failed.
The sex scenes are badly written and terrible and I think the main character is supposed to be using sex for political purposes but they're really bad at it.
A good premise, badly executed. 

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