i quite enjoyed this book :) Kip was an interesting character to follow, i wish this had more of him and less of his novel but oh well. there was just one sentence within it specifically that i made a note of to address in this review (not spoiler-tagging it because it is a singular sentence that reveals nothing about the book or its plot):

“it is no less mysterious than a child with autism flawlessly playing a Bach fugue on the piano after hearing it once”. (about page 204 or so, first few lines on the page)

that would not be autism, that would be savant syndrome. savant syndrome is quite rare and occurs alongside various developmental disorders (including autism), but there is a surprisingly large stereotype that many/all autistic people are savants, which is absolutely untrue. 

i know this is a very small detail in this novel, but i wasn’t expecting that stereotype to come up as an analogy for something else (i may not have my terminology correct, but i think this sentence was used as an analogy). i also just really wanted to mention that this is in the book, for anyone who may not be autistic/doesn’t have enough knowledge about autism and other developmental disorders to know that the savant stereotype is largely untrue. thank you, if anyone reads this. :)