Wound up Boy

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Pretty Decent, interesting ideas. Would have been four stars except for the title character, who is an asian fetish cliche. Brutal, graphic rape scenes that are really unjustifiable and unnecessary and a lingering scene where we are treated to water sluicing off her "flanks". I know far too much about the author's sexy fantasies now. I want to sluice water off MY flanks just to get the yuck off.

Rape fantasies aside, the rest of the subplots are pretty decent and I enjoyed the world-building, dystopian as it was.

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