It was okay but didn't blow my mind! I found the Adventures in Near Future Patent Law tedious and the ending unsatisfying. I thought it was setting itself up for some deeper exploration of the notion of autonomy (among other things), but it didn't ultimately follow through.

The writing style betrays the author's background in science journalism, with little immersiveness or emotional connection to the characters. On the whole it takes itself far too seriously and almost feels like even the author wasn't all that interested in her own characters or story.

There's also some LGBT(?) stuff that didn't sit at all right with me, which is confusing since I know the author is part of the queer community, but like... I don't really see how to read it in a way that doesn't reinforce some pretty bad homophobic/transphobic stereotypes.

What most disappointed me, in the end, was that the questionable ethics of many of the characters remained unexamined (or even rewarded), and while the characters ultimately saved themselves, they didn't seem to grow or change, and failed to make any impact on the larger problems that the book spent so long illustrating. Which maybe was the point, but if so, it was depressing.