This book has a great message of why banning books is a terrible idea, but my lord, it was completely lacking in finesse and subtlety. It felt like I was reading a middle schooler’s take on racism, sexual assault, homophobia, white supremacy, etc. I had zero problem with the sheer number of characters we had to follow, but each person came off as a total caricature. The antagonists may as well have been twirling mustaches and tying people to railroad tracks for all the overt villainy in their attitudes. And the dialogue was very often laughably bad, and I couldn’t take the book seriously at all.