The book suffers from the same pitfalls of the early Coffee House mysteries, namely clichéd and often misogynistic descriptions and characterizations. Jack's entire character sheet is being a manly man from the 1950s. Penelope, though as modern woman (well a 2004 modern woman) is still overly concerned by the feminine vs masculine bogus binary. But the worst part of the book was the audio performance. For reasons that escape me, two narrators were hired, one for Jack and one for Penelope. Penelope's chapters far outnumber Jack's and the woman reading her chapters does an excellent voice for Jack. The man hired to read Jack's chapter absolutely sucks at doing Penelope's voice. Her dialogue read by him is cringeworthy. http://pussreboots.com/blog/2021/comm...

Okay. Okokokok. Is it great? No. Did I already buy book 2? Yes. It’s fun, it’s not overly complicated, and I’m intrigued to read more of this story. Jack’s mysterious death in particular. I had issues throughout the book- the specific choices made to talk about Calvin’s desperation and suicide. The decision to never mention the dream in terms of how it ended. Was it even actually a dream? I’m honestly confused on that regard. I’m really hoping that this becomes the main way of communication between jack and Pen just because it’s fun and he has a body. But I digress. A quick read, a lazy read, but entertaining.