I wanted this to be a feminist book that I could hand to people and say, Don’t take away women’s rights!

I wanted this to stir my heart and make me think.

I wanted to read about fierce women in the aftermath of an unfair law.

Instead I found a self-involved housewife with a dull husband and two snotty kids, a psychotic teacher who is obsessed with having a baby even though she constantly asks herself why she even wants one, made up stories about the subject of said teacher’s biographical and unfinished novel, a fifteen-year-old girl whose life might be ruined because she can’t get the abortion she needs, and a kitchen witch who lives in the woods and drinks tea made from her dead aunt’s pubic hair.

I found characters who are flat in an even flatter world.

I found a novel with constant references to vaginas and pubic hair and biological clocks as if being gross would make this story more meaningful. This was a cringe-read from start to finish.

Two stars because Eivor Minervudottir was pretty interesting and I would prefer to just read a book about female polar explorers.

I loved the Wodehouse-ness of Lord Caterham's constant annoyance at his house guests and the general silly drama. The political intrigues were fun too.

I only recently started listening to The Adventure Zone, but this is delightful.

Hornby has some really biting one-liners, and this book is funny in a bitter way. But it's hard to muster up any care at all for such a useless deadbeat protagonist. I think this would have been more enjoyable if I were a middle-aged, directionless, bumbler in the mid-nineties, but I think this book's relevance has passed.

Jeeves is ever flawless, but I feel like Wodehouse's talents are better in the novel format. I did thoroughly enjoy every story.

You are immediately drawn into Catarina's story -- this is pretty inevitable when your teenage heroine has to eat the flesh of an almost dead person to gain immunity to a disease that would otherwise kill her. Okay, yes, it's a little grim.

What makes this dystopian so much cooler than any others I've read recently is that it is full of tech! Cool tech! The kind of tech you would stick in your arm right now because if you did you could change your hair, get over the flu, never need to buy deodorant again!

Unfortunately for Cat, she has a rare condition that means she can only have the most rudimentary tech installed. Despite this shortcoming, she is still a bad ass hacker, just like her dad taught her, who is just waiting for him to escape from the people who kidnapped him two years to force him to work on a cure for the disease ravaging humankind.

Yes, there is a boy. Yes, they like each other right away. But Suvada does a great job of having Cat examine her own motives about whether she really likes Cole or if it just a side effect of being in a thriller. I read reviews that were complaining about a love triangle, but it's just not true. Cat had a crush on a guy she hasn't seen in two years, and when he shows up again there's no rekindling (so calm down, love triangle haters, it's fine.)

TL:DR very exciting and futuristic.