Kindle cover of Big Time by Ben H Winters which is all black except for an illustration of an eye looking forward with a set of watch hands in the middle (set to 1:15, if it matters)

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   Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 07:48:54 JST Jessamyn

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   Book 36: Big Time. I've liked Winters' other books but this one (where all the narrative characters are female or nb) just fell flat for me. Great plot, interesting concept but the women just didn't feel like women, they felt like television's idea of women. Like, if you have a character who is a domestic abuse survivor and then she gets killed in an unrelated (and ugly) way, you've decided she is a plot device and that's a very specific authorial choice. Not my jam, this one.