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Psychopomp by Maria Dong

Serving a potentially endless sentence in a lunar penal colony, Young, a failed Pomp, works on a mining crew. Hallucinations, murders, and paranoia abound as she struggles to get herself together, and off Hibiscus Station.

The self-loathing protagonist spends most of the book brooding, and interacts with a sketchily drawn world, and flat supporting characters. I didn’t care for this, it wasn’t sci-fi enough for me, it uses tropes I dislike, and I absolutely despise excessive rumination on self-worth by characters who lack any. Not for me. ★★★☆☆

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