The resisters : a novel

I struggled with how every character seemed flat as a sheet and with about as much personality. All the voices sounded the same. I also found the viewpoint character to be an odd choice - wouldn't the daughter have been better to give us interiority instead of the bizarre choice of pigeon grams and bugging? It sounds cool when I type it, but without character depth, it was just another strange choice. All of this made the actual story hard to care about, despite it being a solid plot. Also, no one was queer, which sucked - just saying. I don't know. The whole thing felt upside down and askew, and I had to work to finish it. I recently read a short story of hers that had emotional interiority, so the way she wrote this was clearly a choice and not just her "style."

This is a decent (not extraordinary) read except for three things: (1) I don't care for baseball, (2) this read more like a YA novel than I expected / than advertised. (3) The whole "like my mom used to say" trope followed by some trite, inane, and useless saying got old very quickly.
It's too bad though because the premise was smart: when AI takes over, a new form of segregation is created between the Netted (the still-necessary humans) and the Surplus (whose jobs no longer exist and are deemed unretrainable). To keep the social order in place, the Surplus are drugged and winnowed into mediocrity, constantly under the surveillance of the Autonet (nicknamed Aunt Nettie by the Surplus) while being told that they "always have a choice". AI totalitarianism in the context of climate changed (more hinted at than fully explored) should have made for a better story.