A review by adhduck
Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Very enjoyable, gritty and interesting and I like how all the mysteries and things unfolded. Also the complexity of the characters was good.

Less of a fan of Go’s sudden vibe switch with Kaev, though I guess it was meant to partly be a front or her pretending to him/herself she wasn’t like Podlove? Also, how is Kaev old enough to be Soq’s dad, I thought he was like 33. And Ora’s like 50. Did they just have kids as teenagers and the book didn’t address it?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Classism, Death, Xenophobia, Pandemic/Epidemic, Animal death, Ableism, Medical trauma, Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, and Sexual content

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

Involves a disease that gives you neurological symptoms, the way it’s passed and is treated by the government has some parallels to HIV/AIDS.