This Dutch novel takes aim at the depersonalising corrosiveness of the internet, but becomes laboured
‘Nothing if not timely’ … Hanna Bervoets.hen he launched his takeover of Twitter earlier this year, Elon Musk sparked consternation by declaring he would loosen the social media platform’s content moderation policies – a move that could set Twitter on a collision course with the EU’s digital regulators.
Bervoets’s narrator laments the oppressive working conditions at Hexa and the lack of mental health support for a workforce routinely exposed to upsetting material.
This storyline is interwoven with a somewhat pulpy account of Kayleigh’s romantic life. First up is Barbara, who breaks her heart by unilaterally inviting a third woman into their relationship. Next there’s Yena, emotionally withholding and manipulative, whose insecurity about her physical appearance prompts a trite epiphany: “I began to realise it wasn’t me that was the problem.
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