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As usual Grady Hendrix excelling at taking old horror tropes and giving them a twist. Think The Craft but set in the 70s and with pregnant teens.

That being said: this is not his most campy nor spooky book. I would've liked more of his usual wittiness and creepy ambience and less body horror (pregnancy is... a thing!).

Extra cool points though because he uses witchcraft to center women's rage at being denied agency under the patriarchy.

"Tenim una gran oportunitat davant dels nostres ulls: la d'imaginar, crear, habitar i ser la internet que ens mereixem. La que allotgi les eines per organitzar-nos, la que ens permeti comunicar-nos amb els nostres éssers estimats a reguard de l'espionatge, la que ens impulsi a construir narratives transformadores i solidàries, la que visibilitzi genocidis davant el món per desmuntar propaganda imperialista i la que emmagatzemi tutorials per hackejar la tecnologia i convertir-la en alguna cosa que serveixi a la comunitat en lloc d'esprémer-la".

Proyecto Una ens conviden a reflexionar des del ciberfeminisme i l'anticapitalisme, i alhora rebutgen explícitament la tecnofòbia.

M'agrada que inciti a l'acció. Fem que Internet sigui de tothom i no d'empreses monopolístiques (i escric això a una plataforma que pertany a Amazon??? Totis tenim contradiccions, suposo).

És una pena que les possibles solucions estiguin concentrades a les conclusions, m'hagués agradat que es concretessin més. Tot i així, un llibre esperançador.

"[...] I continually drove to these places bound to break down and so the hope for change, and the desire for an environment where I could become helpful was always quickly extinguished and I imagined it was the way the world was, or the way I was. Like many others I became an artist. I choose not to dwell on that cultural accident".

Beautifully written, duh. I didn't care that much at first (endless list of people getting smashed) but halfway through something really clicked.

Had I read it 10 years ago, it probably would've become 90% of my personality (insufferable I guess). It's easy to romanticise messy, narcissistic, yet witty and fully humane lesbian poets.

"'Can you believe our luck?' Marx said. 'We bought a house with a tree that has my actual favorite fruit.' Sam used to say that Marx was the most fortunate person he had ever met-he was lucky with lovers, in business, in looks, in life. But the longer Sadie knew Marx, the more she thought Sam hadn't truly understood the nature of Marx's good fortune. Marx was fortunate because he saw everything as if it were a fortuitous bounty. It was impossible to know-were persimmons his favorite fruit, or had they just now become his favorite fruit because there they were, growing in his own backyard? He had certainly never mentioned persimmons before."

Moving and faulted characters, makes creating and playing videogames seem like a romantic adventure. I enjoyed it a lot and came to care for Sadie, Sam and specially Marx. It does overuse my least favourite trope, which is miscommunication aka "everything would be fixed if these two characters had an actual conversation".