A review by banjo_hammer
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

Did not finish book. Stopped at 25%.
This book started interesting, but never quite picked up for me.  Truly a depressing dystopia, which can sometimes make for a good read, but man, this one's a bummer.  The central mystery wasn't interesting enough for me to slog through the story of mostly bad people doing bad stuff.  Also, the introduction of the eponymous wind-up girl is rough stuff.  I get that the author wanted to convey cruelty and dehumanization in her story, but the detail was unnecessary IMO.
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