This is a fresh take on a dystopic world and while it could have used an extra 50-100 pages, I ripped through it in a single day, which never happens for me.

This won’t be a 5 star read for a lot of people. The characters are not very well-developed (purposefully, in my opinion), there are large chunks of academic non-fiction sprinkled throughout the novel, the mechanics of the world aren’t very well explained/are unrealistic, the message is super obvious and on-the-nose, and the abrupt ending leaves everything to the readers’ imagination.

But honestly, I could say a lot of the same things for Brave New World or 1984. And I actually love a good sprinkling of academic text, on-the-nose social novels, vague endings, etc.

Overall, very much worth picking up for any fan of dystopian novels.