this isn't a perfect book by any stretch of the imagination, but i'm giving it 5 stars for a kind of solid cli-fi dystopia that i could read without getting a panic attack. thank you lydia miller

i've owned and had this book on my dresser for upwards of 3 years now and i'm so happy i finalllyyyy finished it. really sweet and interesting. i liked the humor of the kids. i don't mind that they're all kind of archetypal. i think it works for the limited-language kind of style and the amount of space in the topic that they were granted. this is allegory this is a parable this isn't a character study and i'm cool with that.