While I don’t use swear words in my reviews very often, I have no issue with reading them in books. It was very purple prose like, yet it was mixed with odd word choices, and ways to use them, plus a lot of profanity. I don’t know if she always writes like this, or if this was a special choice for this particular book. This is my first time reading Khaw so I was not prepared for her writing style. The reason I still gave this 3 stars is that I enjoyed the second half much more, but to be honest I do wonder if I’m rating this a little high since I had no idea what was going on a good chunk of the time. Unfortunately, this was not what I was hoping for and I almost DNF’d it a few times. This wasn’t on my most anticipate list of 21, but this book was high up there of books I was excited to read. I was really excited to read this morally grey, angry and dangerous, sapphic cyborgs out to find their missing friend while under their own death warrant… I mean that sounded pretty damn cool to me. Every year I seem to read at least one book where after I finish I have to ask myself “what the hell did I just read?” well this was my WTH book for 2021.
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