PaperbackReader reviewed Flex by Ferrett Steinmetz
Review of 'Flex' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
I liked the premise, but the worldbuilding felt shoddy and ill-considered. I get that it was supposed to be a world 'just like ours', only having possessed 'mancers since the dawn of civilization. The problem is that I was never sold on the merging of those two conflicting conceits, and a few throwaway paragraphs about World War II and Europe being lost were hardly enough to explain it away.