u/SkyeMagica

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I ordered food and received it earlier this afternoon - I was a little concerned because the guy stopped showing up on the map, but it did arrive; it just stopped tracking him for whatever reason.

A few hours later the guy messages me, says it's still glitched, and asks if I could just add the pay (which I actually have no idea what it is - my first thought was the order total, which thankfully I didn't do) to his tip. I try to reach out to Support and tell them "I received this food two hours ago, please just mark the order as complete."

First support guy is not getting it at all. Tells me he's "at the restaurant" twice after I told him that I already received the food, so he finally says "You received your food?", and then "You can add tip if you like" (which I already had). I disconnect him and get somebody else, who tells me it was a glitch on the driver's end and it's already been reported/will be fixed automatically.

I just got a notification the order was canceled...the order I already received. I feel bad that I might've accidentally screwed someone, but trying to pay him additional via the tip system seemed suspicious.

I admittedly just went to a workshop the author did and got my book signed, but I don't think I even went in with much bias. YA fantasy/dystopia can be serviceable for me, but rarely particularly memorable. Even the title is something that probably would've ever kept me from picking it up if my book club hadn't picked it due to the workshop.

Our protagonist is a badass - a morally complicated badass who leaves the scenes of their jobs with so much carnage people literally go "Shit, Val," but also has so much care for the people they love that surely, the narrative suggests to you, maybe being an assassin isn't so bad. Until you see the effects that even nameless, "bad guy" killing has not only on a person, but on how the people they care about see them as well. Val tries to separate this by creating a persona as "The Butcher," but that hardly cushions the blow of seeing your sibling, or childhood friend, try to smile or reassure you with a mutilated corpse they're responsible for, not too far off in the distance.

The characters are quick-witted with one another, and have their own understandable upsets without devolving too much into teen angst. It doesn't read much like YA, but only in positive ways - there's no high school drama, only a smidge of hints of romance, the characters act realistically their age + living in a dystopia (that's not too far from where they are now). And along the journey we've got some gory fight scenes, Evangelion-esque religious symbolism, climate change...

Basically this book is so much more than its title would imply and anyone who's looking for:

• Queer rep/Protagonists

• YA without excessive romance or sex (none at all here)

• Sci-fi/fantasy

• Exploration/unpacking of religious and familial trauma

can find something here!