I actually actively wished for the main character to not have a chance at a relationship with a woman because he wasn't good enough for her, and I was in *his* POV at the time. Characters are intensely meh to outright annoying. However the plot is kind of meh, and the author has no skill or understanding in signposting the plot or giving enough information at critical moments, which can make one feel lost and having to rewind once or thrice to the description of the little round yellow things with the bumpy surface, whatever they were?! Because of the lack of plot signposting, the book also feels disjointed and episodic. however my point is that the way the author uses the math to give a hard sci-fi basis to Lovecraftian abominations does indeed make the target audience feel mind boggled, and I loved it. Which isn't a bad reason to pause the book for, but could've been integrated in the writing as an explanation to someone. The worldbuilding is phenomenal but I say this as someone familiar with words like Hamiltonian, NP completeness, and lattice, and even I had to jog my memory on the Church Turing hypothesis.
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