The Unseen World

This book draggeddddddddd.

I can see how all the elements were there, and I should have - at least - really liked this. Moore is a good writer, though could have used a tighter edit. I liked Liston. I liked Ada's early years with David. I liked the conversations with their “coworkers” in the lab, and her lab-education, and the early conversations with Elixir. I thought what I was getting was a family story where the father declines into Alzheimer's, and I even appreciated that aspect, as Ada tried to pretend that everything was fine, he was fine, everything was under control.

So I was so frustrated when the declining-health thing turned into family secrets thing, even though FINE, I guess David had a good reason for family secrets taking on a different identity. I was bored by Ada's school years. I would finally get invested in something only for the book to jump in time. I didn't think any of the chapters set after the 1980s were interesting or important, I just wanted to hang out in the '80s where the interesting things were happening. I was bored by most of the AI stuff, and I really didn't like the ending. (I thought about skipping the last 20 minutes of the audiobook, because I was soooo readyyyy to be done, and ... that wouldn't have been remiss.)

Bummed.