Sequela

I was really excited to read this book because the concept seemed so original, but ended up disappointed. Despite the book being decently long no plot threads are ever focused on long enough to get any kind of decent resolution, nearly every character is a mess of awful stereotypes, the way fat people are described is SUPER embarrassing, and the moralizing about sex without risk becoming emotionally meaningless is something out of an anti-HPV vaccine pamphlet. (Also idk it just seems super weird to me for characters to be so morally opposed to a character deciding he didn't want to make militarized viruses anymore - like I get the angle of him being a sellout because he moved to the private sector but it's not like he was doing really noble work at the Institute)

A lot of things happen in this book but at the end nearly everyone seems to be exactly where they started.

Also while consent is kind of iffy all the way through the book because of the transactional nature of sex in a world where you want to show off the important people you've been with for advancement, there's one point in the middle of the book where a character has a non-consensual sexual experience that's kind of played for laughs and that really put me off.