A review by displacedcactus
The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi

Did not finish book. Stopped at 10%.

I really wanted to like this book, but if I'm going to commit to 600+ pages (and possibly two more equally large books to wrap up the trilogy), I need to be really wowed. The first 60 pages were just a real slog and I had a hard time getting into the main character's quest for drugs and drug money.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, Violence, Slavery, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

There's a public execution by torture, and an entire class of people is subject to having their tongues and hands amputated when they are children.