i think that this book is deeply flawed for two fair reasons. gender politics in an apocalypse WOULD be flawed. the world in this book is a horrible rotten place and the people living in it, even the “good ones”, are horrible rotten people. they are at times unlikeable and in others you hate them. they are what’s left though, cause good people don’t survive an apocalypse.

this book is also flawed because the author likely has some trauma she’s never finished unpacking. the deep rooted transmisogyny is both a fact of life but also an alarming insight into what is maybe a problem the author doesn’t know she has, growth she hasn’t made. this book is written with a sense of rage and hurt that comes from the mouth of those who have experienced the violence they’re writing.