Scott’s Reviews > The Dream Hotel > Status Update

Starts fine. Good, even. Then it gets just the tiniest shade of worse with each page. I’ve never seen a book do that so consistently. Every page just a fraction of a smidgen worse than the last until like old frog-in the-boiling-water routine, you’re suddenly 90 pages from finishing the blandest, most repetitive book you can remember and you can’t pinpoint exactly when it got this bad, just that it did.

Groan

A conveyer belt of tech-panic tropes that Futurama, Black Mirror, and even South Park already did, with a groan-induing twist that Severance did a lot better, all grafted onto a premise the blurb calls "utterly original" and probably was when it was first published as Phillip K. Dick's The Minority Report. Bleah and I are enjoying our "couple's critique" of this at least.