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Bang Bang Bodhisattva by Aubrey Wood
4.5

A fully realized world with well fleshed out characters. My biggest gripe is the (lack of) transition between PoVs. 

This book has my new favourite epigraph and first line combo. 

Fuck the police. - Old Klingon proverb

and 

The big idiot's robot fist plowed into Kiera's face like a bullet train splattering a little baby bunny.

This one reminded me a lot of Simon Logan's Katja from the Punk Band (which I only know one other person who's read), but without all the things that annoyed me. BBB was on fuckin rails and felt like it never really let up after that banger of a first line. TransCyberNoir as an emerging subgenre (bc holy shit, that playground is just BEGGING to be filled) is really exciting as a reader and I hope to see this book getting some buzz. 

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