After I got used to the technical aspect of the writing, a really engrossing story.
The book is written in a way that quite often ends right in the middle of a train of thought. Reading on a kindle it was hard to work out if it was intentional or if there was a problem with the Kindle edition! After a while I got used to it, and learnt to just to either let go of the sentiment or ignore it.
The story uses time jumping a lot but thankfully the book is written in a way that it was easy to know when we had jumped back or forwards through time.
The story is set in a dystopian alternative reality, which frankly isn't far from our reality now and it's easy to see how our society could get there. Which makes the entire story even more scary.
The story primarily follows Theo Miller a person who has lived in the world as it becomes worse and just gone along with it because "that's just the way the world works".
He weighs crime for indemnity, of course rape has a power indemnity than sexual harassment (because… Men made the rules
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Who will be strongest without love, alone, loveless, devoid? What is worse – for you to lose the one you love or for the one you love to be destroyed by losing you?
A lampshade above his head on which ducks flew in an endless circle, eyes wide and terrified at the philosophical prison of their flight.
She was sent to juvenile detention, where she worked copying and pasting five-star online reviews for sports products.
On the walls of the local Indian takeaway someone had graffitied, WILL YOU MARRY ME? but if an answer had been given, it hadn't endured.
she had shrunk down so small beneath the muscle mass that she hadn't been able to see that the shape of her soul was a woman, blazing with light.
The service is delayed. There is the wrong kind of ice on the line.
a false passport in his pocket, a ticket to somewhere hot in his hand, and wonders what the hell he's going to do now that he's got principles and no pension plan, and concludes that it's probably all a disaster anyway.