BORING

Overall, it is worth reading, even with many flaws. I am not sure if listening to it on audiobook added to the experience or made it worse. Ariel Blake is one of the better narrators I’ve come across, especially in this book because her voice works well for the hum robots, but the children’s voices were extremely annoying and made me not care about them. Some of the more dramatic moments were TOO dramatic and made me cringe. 
Anyway, this novel explores above all, motherhood, which I never have and never will experience, and so I could not relate to it. But it also delves into hot topics such as robots/ AI, consumerism, cancel-culture, misogyny, and climate change. I think exploring more heavily the secondary themes would have been more impactful. In ways this book is very disturbing; hums are programmed to constantly be selling products to humans - and this could also be an analogy for how chronically online we all are; how we are constantly inundated with ads from influencers and social media in general. 
The ending was anticlimactic and cheesy as f*** and makes me wonder if Helen Philips is an AI-sympathizer.