Overall I really enjoyed this book and I don't think I've read through something this quickly since Lote. Zevin is a very masterful writer and many sections towards the end were especially striking with their changes in narrative structure and experimentation in language. I'm decently familiar with the kind of video games they talk about and the sections where they discuss the mechanics of the fictionalized games were some of my favorite. I'd love to play Ichigo! 

There was a lot I wasn't as fond of, however. I found a lot of the romantic/relationship action and discussion to be fairly contrived and far too saccharine in a lot of places (not to mention straight, boring!). I was also super disappointed by what the novel didn't go into further - the tension between capitalist profit and creativity, virtual spaces and the utopias they attempt to create, and the relationship between digital and human memory. I also thought that, by leaving many of these topics underexplored, the book's politics landed pretty solidly in the center-left liberalism that populates bumper stickers and mediocre college Democrat groups. These politics aren't necessarily problematic, but they are incredibly tired and increasingly useless to discuss nowadays.