A review by sarah2438
Defekt by Nino Cipri

2.5

Going back and forth between 2.5 and 3 stars. I liked this one significantly less than the first. It felt less like a social commentary and more focused on making jokes and being generally ridiculous. A hint of that old tone remained, but it was mostly gone. The first half had some straight-up horror elements and I was getting super into it, but once Derek went to his special inventory shift, it just went downhill for me. The romance felt flat and completely unnecessary (also kinda weird when you think about it) and the attempt to bring in that universe's modern-day social media (SnapYap and hashtags) was just really cringey. I'd say read the first one and call it good; this was unnecessary and not that well done.