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On one hand, I ripped through this book in literally less than 24 hours. (Guessing it was 5 or so hours of reading.) On the other, this is a deeply flawed book in so many ways.

If I were rating this on sheer readability, and my own compulsion to finish the novel, it'd be 5 stars. If I were rating it on concept and impressiveness of its ideas, it might get 0.5.

Just, please remind me to never, EVER, write a story where the premise is the character is smarter than everyone else. I just think, it's likely that it's an impossible task. Because, as an author, you have to think of every possibility that your readers might think of, and (somehow!?) believe that your ideas, the ones you write your supergenius having, are going to be believably smarter than all of them. There's just so much arrogance there. So much hubris. Imagine thinking you wrote a character whose actions telegraph an intelligence greater than all of your readers! Imagine!

So yeah, there were several points where I felt like the main character, who supposedly now has an IQ over 200, just didn't take any time at all to consider any alternatives to their actions. Even giving the author the benefit of the doubt, assuming the character did the equivalent to planning for months in the blink of an eye, I still think there were several painfully dumb decisions depicted.

And one of the dumbest is in the very end of the novel, revealed in the epilogue. A thing that it's revealed the character does that is possibly one of the my least favorite conclusions to a novel that I've ever read. It's just painful to me how bad I think it is.