States of Emergency

I really wanted to like this book because I found the premise interesting, but it just didn't really come together for me. The central thread of the main couple's marriage just felt very far away most of the time. The protagonist recounts stories told by friends, or stories about friends, so often that I almost felt like I was reading a collection of short stories for a large part of the book. I would get super engrossed in one of them and then it would end and I'd remember oh yeah, this is a book about this couple. It was an odd and disjointed experience that kinda left me just not really caring about their marriage. I pushed through because it was an ARC, but had it not been I probably would have DNFed mid book.

Thanks to the publisher and netgalley for the ARC