A review by littlestbiscuit
That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston

fast-paced
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.0

I just accidentally refreshed and lost my entire like 1k word review. Eventually I will go back and rewrite it but TL;DR: so “woke” it loops back to being bigoted (super white, pro-imperialist, the Computer is based on eugenics), the characters are flat and not good people which is never really addressed lol (
mostly referring to Helena cheating on August
), the book jacket implies a lot of political maneuvering of which there is none and also implies the ending will be a triad that ~breaks boundaries~ in the empire when instead we get
a poorly proposed V based on cheating (!!!!!!) and a tacked-on-at-the-last-minute beard marriage for August and Margaret. So romantic 🙄
.

Do not recommend.
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