2.0 ⭐ from the three hours I listened to.

Just too dull and dry, Richie should've probably stuck with Phillip K. Dick although this at least gave him some badly needed character development. The high point of the audio book for me was when the Japanese narrator read "this whole time" and his accent caused him to switch out the 'l' for an 'r'.

The protagonist was not only colourless but also hopelessly boring, and honestly, like Richie I thought this was why they abandoned him, because honestly it'd be enough to make anyone drop that ***. The talk and depictions of sex in this book just felt gross for some reason I can't quite put my finger on. According to reviews and the plot summary on Wiki there's also a false SA accusation, which not only sounds like a cop-out on the author's part when he could have come up with something actually interesting, or some actual conflict to resolve, but which I also dislike as a plot device (especially with false rape accusations being incredibly rare in reality), and just feels wrong in a book that's this full of fantasies and depictions of sex.