I begin my review like many others I've seen. By clarifying that I read this book because I needed a title starting with X for my A to Z reading challenge. 😂

When the main plot point of this book was all about collecting gas from flatulence to build a bomb, it just confirmed what I'd been thinking all along. This book is not for me.

The tone of the book was all over the place. At times it was almost slapstick and goofy, and then it would shift to dark and violent and gory. It was like getting whiplash. It was also far longer than it needed to be with time spent on things that could have been shorter or left out entirely (see also: endless pages about "fart club" and the "fart bomb.")

And the "twist" that came in the penultimate chapter. Well, it was obvious from the start of the book that that was how it would go. It was not as tricky as I think the author intended for it to be.

Anyway, I'm very glad to be done with this book.