This is a fantastic revenge story that doesn’t waste its time or pull its punches. Despite the short length, the author weaved together an engaging tale of revenge, regret, rage and resentment. (I didn’t mean for it to be so alliterative). There are twists and turns, betrayals and revelations, and an ending that left me staring at the wall for a bit when I was done. While there isn’t extensive world-building, the small piece of this universe we see indicates a lot about the larger one, and the wider conflict happening around Inez’s one-woman mission for retribution. I love morally grey characters and I love well-executed unreliable narrators, and this book delivered on both. It’s a quick and exciting read that I couldn’t put down until I was finished with it. 

This novella explores themes of disability, queerness and colonialism. Each of those themes fits so well within the story, and makes for a complex, but not overly complicated, plot and cast of characters. Any of those elements being absent would make this novella feel like something was missing.