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I enjoyed the last final third of the book the most, and that is what makes the rest of it make sense. I found most of it revolting and completely dehumanising, with only small fragments of guilt or regret for the horrible thoughts the characters were having. No woman was respected, and the writing for me didn’t feel critical of this until the very end. Maybe this is intentional. I think the story is about delusion and the shameless ignorance of youth, especially when it feeds greed or gruesome expectation. It’s about children feeling like men, wanting power and feeling too stuck to see their situation clearly. Feeling too stuck to care whether a plan is out of order because their mind is already set in the nihilism needed to continue. Absolutely horrifying and scary to think so many little boys actually grow up to be like this, converting their early experiences with loss of control and sex into mindless and reckless plans of rage and tragedy. And the systems that further allow this, the interplay between this need to blame anyone but yourself for wrong actions to hide your guilt. And ofc the circumstances which uphold this denial of responsibility. Like it more now I know it was written by a woman.

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adventurous dark medium-paced

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Då har jag betat av ytterligare en bok skriven av författaren Fernanda Melchor. Även denna bok speglar dagens Mexiko med skillnader mellan människor som har och de som inte har.

Huvudpersonen, Polo, har växt under mindre bemedlade omständigheter. Han har lämnat skolan utan godkända betyg. Hans mor tröttnar på hans något oansvariga leverne. Hon ser till att ordna ett arbete åt honom som diversearbetare i ett välbärgat villaområde – Paradais.

Boken skildrar Polos lev och tankar. Han vill komma bort från samhället där han lever. Han träffar en jämnårig som bor i villaområdet. Boken skildrar det skeende som är bokens tema och de stora klasskillnader som existerar.