To me, this was not the best follow up to An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. I did not like the multiple POV's. I didn't think they were distinct enough from one another. I am not sure how much it really added to the story either. A big issue for me was that I had a hard time imagining what anything looked like. He described emotions a lot and not visual elements. I wish there were more sci-fi elements than there were. Most of what I have to say are spoilers so I will add them below.
Spoiler When April was reintroduced, I didn't think he described what she looked like enough. I was mostly confused by it. Also, the Space. I couldn't imagine what it really looked like. Could people interact with one another or were they only alone? What did people do with the virtual stuff they would buy? I am not sure. I didn't think it made sense that Andy went into the Space and just automatically knew how to use it. That subplot with The Thread was basically pointless. I didn't like how he would randomly add the word 'like' into sentences. I assume he was doing this to make the characters sound younger. The parts with Bex and Jason felt as if they were thrown in to create meaningless conflict. They foreshadowed the entire ending of Carl dying which cheapened it for me. I couldn't really care that Carl died because I felt like I was spoiled earlier in the book. I wish Carl was more alien and less of an infection, if that is what he was. I don't usually care for sci-fi but I was wanting MORE sci-fi elements. Fish didn't feel like a threat because we never really saw them. We didn't really know what they were capable of or how powerful they were compared to Carl.
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