A review by sterrenkijker
World Running Down by Al Hess

Did not finish book. Stopped at 20%.

I knew going in that this was going to be a sci fi adventure romance, but I still expect romance books to engage with its themes in an interesting and engaging way (especially a queer dystopia), and that's not what I got - at least not from the first quarter of the book. Right off the bat, the pace felt off, and the characters felt flat. The recurring themes of existing in a queer body and what that means for an individual were literally spelled out for the reader, leaving seemingly nothing for the rest of the book to chew on or do something with that isn't painfully unsubtle.