This was an intriguing read, but I have light beef. I love me some absurdism, but I think the promise of this book is less effective because there wasn’t enough of a concrete difference between the stories of Y/N and the Narrator.  I think if the ‘real’ story was more grounded in realism and devolved as the fanfiction became more prominent, it would have had me. This is sort of the implicit promise put out by the flap copy, and it just didn’t quite do that, so it kind of left me feeling like we began and ended in the same place. 

I’m glad I read this and will certainly recommend it to folks that enjoy a weird-ass high concept book, but I don’t think It succeeded in its goals with me reading.