So I will start off by saying that I received this book through LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program, and I am grateful to the publisher for the opportunity to read this!

I want to say upfront that I don't think me not liking this book is wholly the book's fault? I might just be too Dumb to understand it. I tried to let go and just let the book take me where it was going, but it didn't... feel like it went anywhere? It was very confusing for me and hard to follow, which I suspect is part of the point and so like good on that one, but it wasn't a story I felt I could follow, I didn't really... care? About Robert or what he was doing, the experiment, or in figuring out what was "real" (not that I'm sure the story wants you to do that, but y'know.) Some of the phrasing was really beautiful, I just think I'm too dense for the whole plot. You might like it if you like buckwild, nearly incomprehensible sci-fi that asks really deep questions about the nature of who we are and what constitutes our realities? But it wasn't my cup of tea.