Reviews are mixed on this book because it’s “too political”. But it is just so well written. Written with the compelling voice  Celeste Ng brings to every book, it will bring you right into the story. My heart broke for the losses faced by Bird and the rest of the world. She reveals the plot slowly, and never fully explains the “crisis” that led to PACT, and while some readers may find that frustrating and manipulative, it allows the reader to fully explore their own imagination as to what could be so terrible as to result in this dystopian world. And truthfully, reality is closer than we’d like to think.