initially thought I wasn't gonna be able to get into this because the surveillance tech/private prison dystopia is barely altered from the one we're currently in, and that's not super appealing literary escape right now. But I got sucked in and enjoyed the read overall. My gripes are that I found some aspects of it really heavy-handed, and there were also a few lines of thought/plot points that were cracked open but never fleshed out, which in some ways made things feel more realistic and less tidy but was also kind of weird and disappointing.