I came in to this as a big DCC fan and I have read and liked The Grinding my Dinniman, as well. I struggled with this one, though. I found it to be so slow starting off, despite it getting into the “action” pretty quickly. I found the character development to be non-existent. The story never had me attached to or caring about any of the characters. If anything, I was turned off the character of Oliver, and his sister Lulu to some extent, pretty early on. Lulu is internet p*rn star. She is smart enough to hack into the net, but uses it for that. That doesn’t necessarily turn me away by itself. What got me is Oliver goes on two different monologues about how proud he is of her for what she does, how it’s not weird at all for him, how it makes her so happy, etc….it was bizarre. If it’s not weird for you as her brother then something is very wrong. His sister also does her work in their home office with her toys all over the place, which he is also totally cool with despite her offering to move it to the barn. This then culminates in a scene where she expects him to move all her toys so the neighbors don’t see them. This is all pretty early on and I had to take a break from the book at that point. Felt like someone on a soapbox for the p*rn. industry. I saw that as someone who loves all the raunchy humor in the DCC books. While the book did improve for me some toward the end, I was left rolling my eyes at the callbacks to Lulu’s job and all the supposed to be humorous insults that just didn’t land for me. And finally, I wasn’t much of a fan of the narrator, either.