**spoiler alert** Maybe I need to give up on dystopian fiction. Again, I wish there were ratings and trigger warnings for books. This was an interesti**spoiler alert** Maybe I need to give up on dystopian fiction. Again, I wish there were ratings and trigger warnings for books. This was an interesting premise, but so, so much darker than I’d anticipated. The premise presents a sufficient injustice all on its own. There was no need to focus in on a psychopath and a pedophile to prove the problematic nature of such a program.
Trigger warnings:
suicides, serial killings, pedophilia, voyeurism...more
**spoiler alert** I would not recommend this book for most young people who are already too worried about climate change and the future. If it serves **spoiler alert** I would not recommend this book for most young people who are already too worried about climate change and the future. If it serves as a warning, it’s too depressing, and it doesn’t fill me with hope for a better future. This is a troubled little family, and I didn’t feel like there was real resolution for them in the end. The negative feelings I had for the characters of the wife and daughter eventually led me to speed read my way through this so I could be done.
Trigger warnings: the daughter’s eating disorder is mentioned often but not dealt with, certainly not resolved, in any meaningful way....more
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