"We're bugs in a terrarium. Not being hunted. Just watched."

GENRE: Horror (Body Horror with Worms)
RATING: 4.25/5
FORMAT: eBook Arc

Review:
Indigent is such an interesting story that tackles a lot of social commentary in a perfect way for this horror book with Worms (!!) in it. The way it's weaved in and with some of the social commentaries, you do have to pay attention and reflect back to it (and reread it, which I will be doing) in order to grasp it all. Briana does a lovely work of combining so many commentary, themes and important message together in the book.

I also quite enjoyed that we get multi-POV and I am always going to be a huge fan of books that have multiple POV, especially from minor characters. Some of the characters, like Xavier and Ari, get deeper POVs and more of them so we get to know them a lot more. Others, we see their POV and understand their impact on the main characters instead. I think in this way, the multi-POV feeds in beautifully together to deliver the themes across.

Essentially, I dont want to share anything as to avoid spoilers but the author wrote this book as a commentary to the medical system and healthcare in the USA. We see the impact of society, lack of funding and finance on people who cannot afford healthcare and we see what greed and so many other things do to further this.

The writing in here was done well and I quite enjoyed the fact that we also have so many anatomical phrases, which Xavier uses throughout the book. Also, I loved the footnotes in the book, I'm always here for having them in fiction books! I am looking forward to more by the author and can't wait to read their future work!

Thank you to the author and netgalley for the Arc copy in the exchange for my honest opinion.