I don't know what exactly it is I was expecting from this book, but truth be told I enjoyed it a lot. I'm very curious about the objects despite the fact that they're the catalyst rather than the main thing.

I'm a huge fan of the way the book is distributed: short chapters, each a different statement by a different human/humanoid, not knowing whether to believe them or not. Some of them were obvious unreliable narrators, some were gentle, others scared, others indifferent. Despite the fact that the narration doesn't vary much from one character to the other, you get glimpses of their personalities and worries.

I believe the criticism towards capitalism and production above else was very well-written. How it's valued above anything else is showed in a somewhat subtle, yet unmistakable way: the allocation of hologram children to mothers who missed their own children or had undergone miscarriages so that they wouldn't be sad (and therefore wouldn't stop working) for example, is the one that broke my brain the most.

Some quotes in here will stay with me for a long time too. I've underlined a few:

"I don't know if I'm human anymore. Am I human? Does it say in your files what I am?"

"I never had a childhood either, though I've tried to imagine one."

"Could I be human if you called me so?"

"I burn the way the sun burns. I know without a doubt that I'm real. I may have been made, but now I'm making myself."