I went back and forth as to whether I wanted to give this book a three or four star review. At moments I found it clever in it's insights and character approaches and at other times, I found it lacking. In what I'm not sure but I definitely found myself feeling dispassionate which is an interesting sensation to be left with since the setting is built around a world in which a small machine called an Apricity, can tell you what you need to change in your life in order to increase life satisfaction, i.e. happiness. It's an interesting premise though, sort of like a Black Mirror episode if it were allowed to just follow it's characters as they continue to wander about their lives long after the credits roll.