I thought of how the world can be anything and how sad it is that it’s this.
This book is an R-rated Hunger Games for the social justice-minded.
The story was so unrelentingly grim that I don’t know that I could say reading it was a pleasant experience. But damn is it well-written.
”J, I want you to fight as hard as you’ve ever fought today. Everybody that isn’t me is about to try to kill you. You understand that?” “I do,” Craft said. “Well then, let’s see if this is our last day in hell.” “It is not,” Craft said.
As great as the characters of Thurwar and Staxxx were, it was the Singer and Jungle Craft’s story I found the most compelling; Dr. Patty’s story was great, too.
I can appreciate the use of footnotes in novels. Here, some of them give real life examples of some of things about the American justice and prison systems that happen in the story, lest you think they were too absurd to be based in truth.
I admit, I did not understand what happened in the last paragraph, which was frustrating, but I immediately turned to the internet and found the explanations there satisfactory.
This is a really powerful story, and one I don’t think I’ll soon forget.
He thanked God for showing him his life had not been for nothing. He did not know what it was for, but he knew it was not for nothing.
Jessica Crawford 