Unlike 2034, this rendition did not grab my attention and shake it around. The characters are multiple, the pacing plodding, and the story confusing. Concepts outlined are so 2020ish. The idea of human-machine "singularity" was intriguing but not sufficiently fleshed out to be credible. Scenes jumped around and I was one third of the way through the 9.4 hour book before I figured it out. I'm done with Ackerman and Stravardis. ( )