A review by fendergender
Gunk Baby by Jamie Marina Lau
hopeful
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
3.0
oh my god the MONOTONY of the daily grind, the sleepy town, the daily drive being the only thing keeping you sane!
it's so crazy how leen ends up caught between the world of the cult-like revolutionaries and the seemingly well-off corporate managers- like girl you thought you won but you're just in a new kind of cage! especially towards the end of the book when her shared home slowly morphs into a Staged Branded Experience and every inanimate object gets referred to by it's product name....it's very unsettling, very reminiscent of certain aspects of horrorstor, even
it's so crazy how leen ends up caught between the world of the cult-like revolutionaries and the seemingly well-off corporate managers- like girl you thought you won but you're just in a new kind of cage! especially towards the end of the book when her shared home slowly morphs into a Staged Branded Experience and every inanimate object gets referred to by it's product name....it's very unsettling, very reminiscent of certain aspects of horrorstor, even