Did I have a good time? One could say that. Is it a good book? If you'e delusional sure.

There's so much going on here. First of all, love me a book with a map. Love me a book with extreme worldbuilding. Did it get a laugh or two out of me? Sure, sure. Where do I even begin with its flaws though? White people love to do this thing where they reinvent racism for robots instead of acknowledging the real world racism that exists. They think "Oh if bigoted bad humans had another thing to hate they would just move on to the other thing." That's not and has never been true. White people also love to do this thing where they reinvent eugenics. They're obsessed with it. These two critiques could be unnecessary, if they weren't a flaw of the writing / author. Dystopia & satirical media that critiques the future or the present day as a sort of cautionary tale by highlighting who we are and who we could be to extremes CAN be good, but white people have such a tendency to miss the mark. And you can see their own biases and flaws in the examples I just gave, but somehow they can't. And, if it really was that white people WERE saying "Eugenics bad, bigotry bad" why do they do it exactly the same way at every opportunity they get? So you're telling the same story over and over and it's like, okay, either your message is you want the people reading this to think it's bad, which they don't because they've seen the story be told the same way so many time they actually think this must be good therefore they believe it, OR, the more realistic option, you actually deep down believe it yourself and don't even realize it.

I liked the footnotes and extra details. But then it got to be too much. Then I realize, oh, this book is set 60 years in the future. I can suspend my disbelief but when you start annoying me with other shit it gets unsuspended. Re-enrolled, if you will. Also, the main character is 16??? Whole time until that point I thought he was in his mid-20s. Ew! 

I wanted to rate this higher but as I got further and further into the end I just got more annoyed,

to the point where when the president is giving the speech about how the masses have to be controlled and that's just the "natural order" of the world, I out loud yelled "this shit again?!" at the park and a few heads turned.

Even my three star rating is generous. For how much it annoyed me I wanted to give it 2.75! You'll never be Dimension 20's A Starstruck Odyssey!!!