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.

Beautiful parable told through poetry, highly recommend the audiobook, which is narrated by the author.