Whoa, I was not prepared for this one. I had just finished a 600-page epic fantasy slog, and I was looking for something short to read at bedtime as a change of pace: "Hey, Lauren Beukes, Zoo City and The Shining Girls were great, I'll grab this one!"

Ungirls is a chillingly plausible peek at the outcome of the invention of vat-grown "sex bodies", complete with all-too-realistic disgusting subreddits and a Jordan Peterson clone.

Content warnings: explicit imagery of sex, violence, sex violence, pedophilia, extreme misogyny, doxxing, stalking