silver

Oh my god, this sounds very much like a book I would also hate passionately. (In fact, in a lot of ways it sounds like a book I did hate passionately -- the combination of "modern social justice point to make" with worldbuilding that doesn't make sense, characters that don't make sense, relationships that don't make sense, bad writing, plus "did... did you intend to send this message, actually?" reminded me powerfully of my gripes about Children of Blood and Bone.)

But it is always fun to read a good book rant, so I enjoyed your writeup of this!