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there was a point during the first boss fight (no spoilers) where I walked away for like 2 weeks b/c I was irritated, but I picked it back up & as the book went on I felt like I could see which parts were deliberate and the point they were trying to make more clearly. I enjoyed enough to get book 2!

Judging by the "when is book 2 coming out" date at the end of the audio, these first ones were written quite a while ago so it's actually pretty interesting (?) that our current tech overlords/AI nightmare hellscape has only made the political commentary increasingly awkwardly on point.

also now I've read a book by a man in 2026 so stop calling me a misandrist.

The further you go in them, the more the story is about something else - the Hunger Games sort of aspect becomes unavoidable and there is some amount of 'what does it mean to be a person'. It feels around book 4/5, there is a significant turn in where the story is going.

I mainlined them all at once and yeah, the solid turn into the delicious parfait of “does this unit have a soul” with “fake memories but real feelings” is not nearly as sharp as I bet it was with one book every couple of years.