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The premise in the first couple of chapters of this book were great, then Kat walked in and I remembered that I hate the way many cis male authors write women. Every scene that involved Kat talking about google or tech period, came with a creepy inner monologue from Clay. Talking about how pretty her ears were and cute she looked in her shirt. He fetishized her nerdy attributes and turned all of it sexual from the moment she appeared in the book. Her character, well all of the characters really, were just poorly fleshed out plot devices. I did find it funny that Kat had a dream of a disembodied digital sublime, when all it took was a pandemic to get us there. It seemed like the author lost steam while writing this book so the ending was anticlimactic and honestly a major let down. The second star I'm giving this book is solely for the one liners in the first 2 chapters.