“What made you decide to build Tapestry?” Where do I begin? I can’t say killing people eats away at the fragile remains of my humanity

Wow. I started reading this and fell into the mindset of "another heroin with traumatic history?" but it really and 100% worked. She's cool, and the world of geek somehow fits around the corporate like it was meant to. Snappy sentences like “You haven’t committed any code in five days. You’re not fine” and “There’s a second copy of the video on an SSD in the freezer” add authenticity and realism to a landscape quite conceivably today and here and now.

I was hooked, and the intense scene at the end of chapter 45 was a highlight. That's the sort of writing that makes a building story very much worth ones while. I want to finish the Avogadro books now; this novel has given me a new appreciation of Hertling's writing.