sunburn by chloe michelle howarth

I wouldn't call it character development, but there was good character analysis. The prose was also very good. It would have been nice to read this all in one go. I don't think I'll ever read it again.

this is how you lose the time war by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

This must have been the romanscifi I was looking for for so long. Although I enjoyed reading it, I didn't find it satisfying. It's very millennial and the prose is purple as hell.

you weren't meant to be human by andrew joseph white

The plotting was good and dropping the reader in the middle of the action, and not giving an origin of the worm mass, was a good choice. It really wasn't as shocking and disgusting as the marketing made it seem, though, because I'm not shocked by pregnancy, and the prose is kind of breathless and overdone. It's also autobiographical to an extreme degree, which I don't enjoy.