A review by jess_mango
The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai

4.0

Woah! This was a crazy ride. The reader is thrown into a future dystopian world where a Tiger Flu pandemic is working its way thru society. Salt Water City is a male-dominated society that has cast out a community of parthenogenic women. (all of the women in this group are cloned from earlier women in their group). The protagonist Kirilow is a doctor's apprentice in this female community. She is sent on a mission to find a new "starfish", a human who can regenerate body parts. The other protagonist is Kora, a girl who just wants to save her family from the pandemic and winds up in a girls' home. All this and there are living cloaks made out of cats. Yup, this book has a lot of wild imaginings.

This was part dystopian novel, part cyber punk, and all sorts of cautionary tale. With recent events we can see where things might head if politics and misogyny collide. I love bizarre books so this one was right up my alley.

Thank you to the publisher for the audiobook!