It was a surprise to me to find out this is a modern book because it feels like something written in the 80’s. The world building is interesting and from what little I saw of it seemed detailed but the main character spent the entire first two chapters obsessing over her relationship with her boyfriend and while she is smart and capable the storytelling is full of old fashioned, thoughtless little ways society undermines women.

And that was before our heroine was invaded by an alien device and it murdered her fiancé.

Just as I was giving the author the benefit of the doubt about the optics of that the heroine herself describes the situation as having been “in a way penetrated” by this unwanted alien symbiont. Shortly thereafter she is naked in a glass room with unwanted medical procedures being attempted on her by a doctor who goes out of his way to treat her like a lab specimen.

I quit when the robots rolled in a bed with shackles on it.