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A review by storytimed
Kundo Wakes Up by Saad Z. Hossain
5.0
I really liked this.......... set in a futuristic biopunk Dhaka post-climate apocalypse
Originally I was afraid that this would be a bro novel as Kundo is a dude trying to find his missing wife
But it ended up being way more chill and mellow and about him finding connections with the other people left behind
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My favorite character is DEAD GOLA, a genius hacker and addict and lesbian whose drug OD made her legally dead to the otherwise omniscient AI who rules the city
But all the other characters are v charming despite the relatively short length of the novel. There's a single mom with a kid from the slums and an aging, dying gangster and several djinn. It's fun!
Originally I was afraid that this would be a bro novel as Kundo is a dude trying to find his missing wife
But it ended up being way more chill and mellow and about him finding connections with the other people left behind
Image
My favorite character is DEAD GOLA, a genius hacker and addict and lesbian whose drug OD made her legally dead to the otherwise omniscient AI who rules the city
But all the other characters are v charming despite the relatively short length of the novel. There's a single mom with a kid from the slums and an aging, dying gangster and several djinn. It's fun!