Crier’s War meets The Hunger Games in this tender and hopeful dystopian.

I am not a dystopian guy, and unfortunately even Ava Reid can’t seem to change that immutable fact about me, which kept this book from really blowing me away. It also keeps me from being able to speak too much to the success of the story. But if you are a dystopian fan and are interested in a close-dystopian with a sapphic enemies-to-lovers romance driving the characters’ arcs (Ava is so goddamn good at making a romance integral to character development and narrative when they write enemies-to-lovers, it’s unreal), definitely pick this one up.

CW: violence, animal death, death of child, adult/minor relationship, sexual harassment, blood & gore, injury detail, dead body, abusive parent, medical content, gun violence, fire/fire injury, drug use, alcoholism (past), emesis

Thank you to the publisher in exchange for an honest review!