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The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon

 This book is full of bad decisions, various descriptions of personhood, corrupted AI deities, unexplained shady governments, mechas, and oddly appealing random food descriptions. No, seriously - it’s a wild ride. Think of smashing the tone of Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb Series and Neon Yang's The Genesis of Misery together and you’ll have a decent grasp on the tone of the entire book.

To give the main character, Sunai, at least some credit they are self-aware to identify that they are making bad decisions they just continue on with them anyways. Despite being character driven this is a book with plenty of overlapping perspectives (especially near the end) that I definitely expect to be confusing for people! If you got through Harrow though I have faith in you.