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Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan
2.0

I've seen a load of negative reviews for this book, and I have to say I agree with them, which is very disappointing. It seemed very poorly written to me. Long messy sentences filled with too many ideas, clunky and cliche descriptions, and flat characters. I couldn't get into the world at all. I felt like for all the description, I understood so little of the world and even what a demon was.

The victim blaming also made me cringe, although it wasn't as bad as I initially believed it would be. There's still no excuse for praising a character's integrity when she, unlike the other sex slaves, manages to escape being raped one night.

Overall, I'd struggle to recommend this to anyone.