By: Hannu Rajaniemi
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins

DNF

What in the world was this? Maybe I stepped into this without the right expectations. But I was confronted with a composition that claimed to be comprised of the full orchestra and ended up being a synthosized assault on my timpanic membrane: a saccharine soliloquy on science-fiction that was simply sad, a syrupy stream of superficiality showcasing a shocking shortage of substance.

In a bold act of literary rebellion, I read everything up to the start of the pseudo climax in chapter 17, leaving the grand finale untouched. Why? Because frankly, a culmination of events in a world so fake and unsatisfying didn’t deserve an ending. Let it languish in its own unresolved mediocrity—I refused to grant it the satisfaction of closure.