Alternate world, contemporary issues

I think it's fair to say that The Child Left in the Dark (and the Take Her Back trilogy as a whole) is pretty far removed from the real world. Genetic engineering resulting in supernatural abilities, human/animal hybrids, slavish soldiers with their humanity altered... It's science fiction with heavy emphasis on the fiction (though I would argue that some of the ideas have bases in real experiments and theories). But through this world of largely made-up science, there are themes that are very much not made-up. Issues which stretch through the veil of storytelling and unreality to strike a chord. From body autonomy to adolescent identity struggles, money-driven corporations wielding too much power with too little accountability to the dangers of social media; there are many things about Take Her Back which speak to and of the world in which it was written.