Kundan’s Reviews > Saltcrop > Status Update

It's finally getting stimulating and dramatic but still doesn't read like Sci Fi to me but more like a mystery adventure story with a bit of suspense. I guess I just don't enjoy the cli-fi genre. Lol

Now there's a bit of action, drama and intrigue finally but still very unoriginal. I'd say it's disappointing but I don't expect better from this author... it's just more lazy writing to capitalize off "diversity " even though she's half white and so she's basically sucking up the energy and space from fully racialized people and Indigenous people who could have written a better story.

I'd DNF it but at this point I am only finishing it to be an informed critic. It doesn't even feel like science fiction at all. And while the Story is interesting, it doesn't feel original because it could be any other dystopian cli-fi! And I don't even understand the point of the story. It just seems like someone half White Capitalizing off the new interest in "diversity" by taking advantage of her Japanese side

Currently one third of the way through Saltcrop, and it doesn't even feel like "science fiction" to me. It feels like literary dystopian fiction with a climate crisis backdrop. The only "science" part of it is that it's set in the future (or alternate present), and the villains have developed a super pesticide to "solve" a problem they themselves probably created. I'd DNF it but I want to be an informed critic.