I could not get into this book at all. The cover really throws you on this one so I am glad that it got changed for the finished copy. I just didn't like the characters so I didn't end up finishing this one.

Thank you netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
I had a difficult time getting into this sci fi , dystopian novel. Daphne is an insecure, young girl navigating a troubled world where wild animals roam free and people are fighting against each other. Amoung this chaos the author spends a good portion focusing on the dysfunctional relationship between Daphne and her movie star mother. It was slow to pick up and when it did the story felt flat. I couldn't connect with the characters. Just not for me.

The Gilded Lynx by Leah Erickson, well written. I had a very hard time getting into this book, it seemed to go nowhere fast for me. It was well written and had good points, just not for me. Thank you for giving me a chance with this book.

This was a book of two halves and I'm not exactly sure how I feel about it. It started off as a dystopian novel but two-thirds of the way through it, it stopped being dystopian and reverted back to the 'normal' for that place. Daphne was a complex main character and towards the end, she made some choices I disagreed with. She was never written as being 100% unlikable but instead, Erickson offered us a character that shift between being a figure we want to root for to one where you are going "what the actual hell are you doing?". It's a good book but it's unsure of itself.