I enjoyed this book, but the male lead is so passive and pathetic most of the time that it is hard to root for him. Though his personality does help explain how he copes with events near the story's end. He's pretty used to putting his head down and moping his way through the bigger things happening around him. I agree with other reviewers here on the art: the backgrounds were pretty sterile and the use of repeating static panels got tiresome by the end of the book. I give this book a three-star rating based purely on the charms of Ada the android. ( )