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A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy
3.75
adventurous challenging hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Killjoy has a great gift for character voice, and it's quite a "voice-y" novel. At points, the story, the strongest part, sags, as the characters explain things in a tone clearly intended for the reader, rather than the other characters, but it's set in a genuinely interested and well-sketched worlds, with characters it's hard not to like. The MC is a journalist, and the journalistic voice is strong, a bit like a fantasy world version of George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. If you're interested in anarchism or non-hierarchical organisation but don't particularly enjoy reading theory or non-fiction, this is a great read, but if you're very familiar with the concepts and are hoping for a strong story in that world, this might lag a little. 

This is compared often with The Dispossessed but I think that only has to them both being "about" anarchism in the loosest sense of the world. They have few similarities in tone, content or style.