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booksthatburn 's review for:
The City Inside
by Samit Basu
DID NOT FINISH: 20%
The initial worldbuilding is immersive and dizzying, a firehose of terms as if to impress indelibly the near-future-ness of the setting. Unfortunately, it was too much for me to track, too quickly, and I stopped a couple of chapters in. If the goal was to communicate the stress the characters were under, it certainly did that, but not in a way I could keep up with.
Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia
Minor: Confinement, Death, Rape, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Sexual harassment