"The Redwood Revenger isn't a dreary dystopia. It's vibrantly colorful and lush. It doesn't talk down or bore with a simplistic political allegory, instead it addresses complex gray areas of good and evil, life and death, love and friendship, sex and rivalry with sly subtlety, satire and humor. The first book in a series, it sets up the world and the characters well, while satisfyingly unpacking the first part of a larger, much more sinister mystery. A deeply weird and funny adventure set in Cascadia, a future post-dystopia I'd actually want to live in. While the main characters are young adults, it's for actual adults who may have grown up on YA, but can handle the explicit sex, complexity and literary writing."