2.5 ⭐️s rounded up. I was interested in this one because of my occupation and love of data systems and technology. The parts of the book that talked about it were pretty fascinating, and I was not aware of the Hollerith cards and machines to track data in a computerized way.

However, while the cards and computers were a recurring theme in the book, so much of the theme of the book was also a couple different love affairs between both lesbians and a transgender woman, or pretty terrible male characters. The way the author depicted all the men in the book, it’s like she had a very low opinion of men as a whole. Only Frank McKay was a good male character - all the rest were either villains, completely self-absorbed, or portrayed as helpless and unstable. It just felt really unbalanced. The female characters I thought lacked a lot of depth, and felt like they made leaps from one thought or feeling to the next at times. The ending felt a little too perfectly solved as well and didn’t feel believable.