A little bit of a mixed bag of a book, for me.

There were long stretches that were much more of a rumination on the world at large rather than anything plot-specific, and this sort of introspective and cynical outlook on the world is something that I would have absolutely devoured as a 15 year old. As a 30 year old it sort of hit me differently. There were more than a handful of occasions where these stretches became a little sanctimonious, and felt like common online left-wing talking points stretched out to fill a 370 page book. Points that I do agree with, but I just didn't feel like it was necessarily the mind-blowing revelatory experience that the character/author was perhaps intending. Or maybe I'm just not the target audience.

Saying that, there were parts that hit quite hard and I did really enjoy and felt were verbalised quite nicely. So... maybe a more thorough edit would have increased my enjoyment. 

Plot-wise, I'm once again a little bit mixed. In some ways it felt like just attempting to throw all the darkest and most cynical events into one novel to really drive home the near-dystopian feeling of millennial life, but sometimes it also just felt a bit... much.

Saying all of that - I did enjoy reading the book, and it does still get my 4 stars. I just think that with a bit of a clean-up it could have maybe hit 5 stars for me.