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YOU. ARE. THE. DEAD. Oh my God. I got the chills so many times while reading this book. It completely blew my mind. It managed to surpass my high expectations AND be nothing at all like I expected. Or in Newspeak "Double Plus Good." Let me preface this with an apology. If I sound stunningly inarticulate at times in this review, I can't help it. My mind is completely fried. This book is like the dystopian Animatrix, with its richly developed culture and economics, not to mention a fully developed warden character named Maximius who later died as a true warden, whose purpose is to limit speech and understanding instead of to enhance and expand it. The world-building is so fully fleshed out and spine-tinglingly terrifying.