Meandering and circuitous, spurring only boredom. The narration is all from a macro stand point. It’s far more ample at showing the Kafkaesque “virtues” of state values and operations than say, present anything of interest to compel a reader on—especially not a character. This goes granular in the most excruciating moments that could have, and should have, been truncated.

The prose just aren’t good enough to keep something this tedious propulsive and the formatting is arranged to only make it feel even more ponderous. Completely arbitrary quotes for dialogue, wether exact or abridged. Walls and walls of text. Exchanges bitten down on like sickly medicine with no purpose. Horrible pacing. Worst of all, possibly: a no shit, Sherlock message point to continually drive home over any other aspect the author might have gestured at.