If you took the premise of this book and used it in fanfiction about characters I know and care about, I'd probably love the fic. Probably cry a lot too. It's an interesting idea.

As it is, I didn't care about any of the characters in the beginning and nothing that happened throughout changed that. It was boring. Like it legit is a clips episode of a tv show. There's technically things happening in the forefront, but the majority is random flashbacks. Nonchronological, disjointed little clips. Presented thus, there's no character development, no plot. Just....a lot lot lot of exposition. 

So, at least it was short.

(Also, the narrator of the audiobook mispronounced several words including "sudoku")