I picked this up thinking it would be in the same vein as Delicious Taco's. To some extent it is. The story and writing is strong, but what really holds this back is our main character. From the short snippet I read which made me decide to buy the book, I expected Spencer to be a little autistic, but ultimately a sympathetic character. An everyman in the online right space, at odds with the sexual marketplace.

Instead, he's a complete sperg, unable to read the room. Almost everything he says and does is total cringe. At times this can be funny, but it's uncomfortable more often than it's not. Rather than laughing at the state of the modern world, which Delicious Tacos does so well, Baltic's laughing at Spencer and people aligned with him. To that extent I found it to be a subversive novel that could just as easily have been written by a marxist. ( )