I tend to be a fan of techy books - I love a bit of tech noir, gamelit, social commentary stuff. This book had all the potential, but... it just didn't hit for me. 

The concept is fun - a PhD candidate develops a very powerful AI assistant whose abilities surpass his expectations. Love it. What I didn't love was a female character basically saying, "You're a creepy stalker but it's okay, I want to spend my life with you;" Margaret Thatcher featuring in a list of the most kind, benevolent, good people to have ever lived; or the idea that being Italian essentially makes someone perfect and they just understand feelings better. 

The author chose to use AI to generate images for the book, and I thought they were disappointingly inaccurate and lazy. I appreciate the transparency they showed in providing the prompts at the end, but I still didn't like it. It added nothing to the book to have it.

I was initially engaged with the moral quandary the main character faced, but the conclusion seemed to say that it was all irrelevant anyway. I did not find the characters likeable.