A review by lisarue
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

The future shown here is deep and complexly envisioned, with great detail and originality.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Violence, Police brutality, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Although I gave this lots of content warnings, the context of the book makes these scenes less sensational and exploitative than otherwise -- it's just less exploitative to have racism and violence against a type of sentient being that doesn't exist in our world.