Mer Mendoza (Merlyn’s Book Hoard)’s Reviews > The Burn Line > Status Update

“But none of that changed the fact that his dismissal had been of his own making, the result of years spent working himself to the bone, grinding down every part of his soul that wasn’t offices and algorithms, destroying whatever parts of him were a real person.”

“His face was contorted in agony as the corruption spread, decomposing him alive”

Brutal

“I’m not eager to have another one of her ‘discussions.’ It’s like having a half-hour YouTube callout video about you performed to your face.”

“Beside him, a woman in office wear trudged glumly forward, light brown skin glistening with perspiration that had soaked into her face mask. Will wondered for a moment where she was going, if she hated whatever fluorescent-lit hell she was traveling to half as much as he did. She did not look at him, the moment passed, and they remained strangers.”