Original idea - focuses on 8 teenage girl boxers as it narrates each match of a boxing tournament they participate in. Mostly, the chapters are made of short vignettes, jumping between each fighter's perspective. (Often so much so that I kept losing track of who ways who ). 

Loved the corporeality and physicality, the description of the fighter's bodies in measures prose. Also liked some of the elements (the boys's red swimming trunk legs, for instance).

liked less: repetition, endlessly. Names. Metaphors. Asylistic elements. The characters kept blurring together. Tbh: I lost interest after about half of it.

The narrative voice was unclear and often didn't work at all in my opinion: The narrative kept leaving the respective matches in random moments, telling me about the girls' future lives. Why? Also, the last fight we witness from the POV of a reporter, and what's with the weirdly futuristic epilogue?

in sum: Parts were very nicely done, but overall, the novel remained overly repetitive and fragmented - it didn't come together in the end.