The writing style didn’t really work for me at the beginning, lots of sentence fragments and testosterone, but it grew on me until I found myself paging fluidly through to the end. Incredibly dystopian from top to bottom: the futuristic society’s caste structure is reinforced by bioengineering so that the top castes are literally superhuman compared to the poor workers at the bottom, but even the highest caste children have to go through a Hunger Games type culling to come out on the very top. It’s nuts and weirdly compelling. There’s definitely a lot of casual violence but it’s all presented as mind games, so it doesn’t feel unnecessarily excessive.