I should preface this review with the fact that I am not a reader of this genre, or a fan of this genre in any medium. So this was probably just never going to be a book for me. 

I get it, but I don't like it. There's a point half way through where the main character does a thing, and I had to stop and ask myself did I read that right, is that what's just happened? And it was. I guess it was supposed to be a twist of sorts, or like a reveal that what you thought was going to happen wasn't happening, or who you thought you were following wasn't who you thought he was, that kind of thing. The problem for me was that I just didn't care. 

Up until this point you're following Marcos, and he's doing this horrible job but he's having doubts, he seems conflicted about what he's doing, about humanity in general. But I never felt like I got a real feel for this character because the book just spends so much time talking about the processing of humans as meat. And it's not even a case of me being grossed out by it, I wasn't, there was just so much of it that it became boring and repetitive and felt about as subtle as a sledgehammer, which I think has the opposite effect of what the author was maybe going for? By the time we get to where the thing I mentioned above happens I was already pretty fed up and I finished the second half of the book purely because it was short. 

Like I said, this isn't a genre I go for, SciFi, dystopia, horror, whatever it is, and I much prefer books that are heavily character driven, and this book just had too much of the world building and not enough of the characters. 

I think probably the biggest "problem" I had with this book is that reading it two years into the Covid pandemic removes pretty much all of the shock value. If I'd read this 4 years ago it would probably have been a completely different experience, but as it is, I was just thinking, "yeah, that would probably happen, people would do that" everytime something disturbing or shocking was mentioned.