Very quick and engaging read, I did not mean to read it in one setting but did. It's tense and you want to find out what happens next - it's funny that this is the protagonist's motivation for being involved, in part. It feels very much like a mystery story. A lot happens in a very small amount of pages

Picked it up from the library because I recognized the name from the Internet. I don't really have high expectations of novels which are about politics first, since often what makes a good essay makes a bad novel (and vice versa) but this surpassed my expectations. It is kind of leftist infighting: the novella. It is definitely not escapist literature.

I didn't love that the narrator immediately knew who the "bad guy" was. The point that charismatic people who put people at ease can be bad people did not need to be stated explicitly. But that's my only complaint in terms of characterization. All the characters feel very real.

If you don't at least know some anarchists irl I don't think this story will make a lot of sense to you