A review by odin45mp
Finna by Nino Cipri

3.0

This was a rough read for me. I didn't care about the main characters or their young adult relationship story. I also, at the time I read this, had never been inside an Ikea (finally visited one a week after I read this, go figure). Since part of the book takes place inside an Ikea with the serial number filed off, I lacked some of the context to fully grasp how well Cipri did at communicating the scope, size, and atmosphere of such stores. I did find the portal fantasy interesting, and the banality of corporate greed and bureaucracy fun enough to read about without getting angry. In the end this was okay but did not grab me like many of the other Hugo shortlist this year.