This took me forever to read and almost as long to review. I believe I picked up a rec for this on one of the sf/f character showdowns, which makes sense because the MC is autistic and queer, and that’s where I’m starting.

I have read many more books with unintentionally extremely vibrant, realistic, autistic main characters. Yasira just feels 2D at best. To the extent that she’s autistic, so is everyone else in the story; it’s not like the other characters are any better at social interactions or coping with overstimulation than she is.

The plot is whatever. The cosmic horror is bland. I was initially interested by the setting (our computers turned themselves into gods and are now dictating the direction of human technology; some people graft the gods onto themselves as angels) but boy does it not bring that to life in any way. It is all so distant.