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BITE-SIZED REVIEW: Our Hideous Progeny: A Novel by C.E. McGill
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BITE-SIZED REVIEW: Our Hideous Progeny: A Novel by C.E. McGill

“One thing was certain: we had done it now, snatched fire from the gods, stolen it down to Earth—and it was only a matter of time before we began to burn.”

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins: May 2023

400 pages

In the never-ending scramble to add to the epic TBR pile, one might eschew any retellings or spinoffs of canonical works. Well, I’m here to tell you to fuck that. Fuck it with a pointy stick.

Case in point: Our Hideous Progeny is the brilliant debut novel from C.E. McGill—the concept of which was conjured over…

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