Why this rating
A lot of subjective enjoyment of a book comes from the time and setting of reading it. Which includes what else you've read recently. This makes sense for food, but I hadn't articulated this in my head for books. This one was like eating your fifth hamburger meal in a row. All of his books are the same. I'm not complaining about the plots or the twists, which are all different and fun. But it feels exactly the same and there's no progress from one to the other. They're all stand alones that "feel" exactly the same. So this one took me a lot longer to get through because I was just tired of Brown books. The premise of consciousness was one of my favs of the series. But the ending was one of the most anti-climactic.