Autonomous came to my attention as a 2018 Nebula award finalist.
It happened to be in a 2 for 1 sale on audible at the time and I decided to give it a go.

Autonomous has all the right elements, a post apocalyptic world, a struggle against capitalism gone wild, gender politics, cool robots and advanced biotech.

So why is it such shit?

While reading Autonomous and after finishing it yesterday I've been struggling to define what kept me from enjoying this Novel.

What I've been able to come up with is that fact that there is no mystery to it. everything is laid out loud and clear. Nothing is left to the readers own imagination. At all times we know exactly what everyone is doing and what they feel.
But I think the most serious problem is that the characters too know exactly what they feel. There is no ambiguity, no one has doubts, and if they do, they get immediately resolved.

In the midst of a crisis between powerful corporations and patent pirates with lives on the line, with a budding human-robot transsexual romance involving a slave-master starting condition to boot, there is no actual conflict, everything gets resolved before the reader can feel anything.