This was such an interesting, engaging book until…it just wasn’t. The first 1/3 to 1/2 had me hooked - a futuristic world where a simple cheek swab popped into a machine can give you a finite list of actions that will make you happier and the story of people administering the swabs. A teenager struggling after recovering from major mental illness and helping a friend through their own trauma. The story was well written and had me wondering where we’d go next

But then all of the stories just…changed. We followed the same characters but left behind these first, unfinished plot lines and jumped around to a different story. Truly I don’t think any of the plots or character arcs came to a conclusion, they just drifted off and the book jumped somewhere else. That, on top of changing narrative styles & narrators mid chapter, left this book feeling chaotic and dissatisfying.