Exciting Times

Where was the excitement? This just felt a bit boring, impersonal, and distant. For a character-driven plot, it was very lacking in character development and just nothing really happened? I kept waiting for Ava to make one good decision for herself (spoiler alert, she doesn't), and the only person I liked was Edith, who is only present for about a third of the time. It feels like this was set up for failure by being compared to Sally Rooney.