A review by phi_cai
Easy Prey by Catherine Lo

1.0

Unintentionally good (and by good, I mean not zero stars) - it’s a pretty poorly written YA novel full of one dimensional stereotypes, however it makes for a brilliant satire if you don’t take it seriously. Spoiler alert but the ending is so predictable that it doesn’t even matter! If you really try to think of it in this way, the book makes an ingenious social commentary, a Black Mirror-esque dark comedy satire drama, about drug usage and peer pressure more than anything. Mouse was pressured into doing it, which lead to a snowball effect that ended with him ruining his future. I felt really bad for him, the character that’s supposed to be the second LEAST sympathetic one, and no one else so at least the book made me feel *something*.