A review by rubeusbeaky
Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

2.0

This book is a mashup of Hunger Games, Zootopia and Handmaid's Tale, and I'm just wondering... who asked for this?! Triggers, triggers, triggers; there is both a trigger warning at the front and a list of assault and abuse hotlines at the back. And yet despite being such unsettling subject matter... the book also has many boring, cliche story beats. I found myself hurrying through the book because I /wasn't/ enjoying it, and just wanted the nightmare to be over. I get that there are devastating, sensitive topics which folks need fictional mirrors to help them explore... but this was both "too real" and Uncanny Valley, traits I don't go /looking/ for when I pick up a book.