Oh yeah, no way does it surprise me that people’s opinions on this book are divisive. You’re either gonna love this, or you’re gonna despise it.

Me? I love it. Adore it, even. It’s so fucked up, a flash in the pan, a twisted little glimpse into a murderous alien who uses hook-ups as a method to alleviate their unbearable emotional loneliness and literal starvation.

Min is doing something here I really appreciate. I love how they use queerness and gender passing as a concept through raw, disgusting imagery that just feels so, so cathartic. I love how the narrator is so consumed by social conformity, for as much as they insist that they aren’t. I love their blasé sense of humor, the way that it humanizes them. Another top contender for my favorite of 2023.

Again though, read the CW list on it first.