Now, I'm not a fan of Dave Stone's work to begin with, but I found this one basically unbearable. Felt like 15 pages of plot buried in a 105-page book.

If you've ever had a small child tell you a story, where they start to tell you something, then veer off on a tangent, then veer off again, and again, until you don't remember what they had started to tell you about, and you're not sure they'll ever stop talking because they're clearly not headed towards any end point...well, that's what it felt like to me.

Dave had an interesting idea, which he conveyed in the last few pages. The rest of it, well, it's just a confused mess until you get to the explanation, IMO, and to me, that's not a fun way to read a book.