A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

I love this book.

So we all remember An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, right?

Well, this picks up with Andy, Maya, and Miranda all trying to cope with the loss of April May. They're each in their own stages of grief but they all know one thing...April's alive. They just have to find her.

So, lets start with Andy.

He's trying to fill April's shoes with all these new people looking to him for answers. He becomes obsessed with a Youtube channel called "The Thread" who publishes anonymous videos sharing unfiltered news. He wants to be a part of something bigger, something better than the life he's currently living. So when he's lead to The Book of Good Times, which he literally finds in a trash can at the park. So obviously, the logical thing to do is follow the advise it's giving him. Soon, Andy finds himself with a girlfriend and billions of dollars.

So Maya, I love her.

She's on the hunt to find her ex-girlfriend. She hits the road with nothing but a sprouting potato. She follows a lead to a little town and quickly realizes something is wrong there. After befriending a local coffee shop owner, she learns of a giant market where sellers come from all over to set up shop. There she finds these rocks that make her think Carl may still be a part of their lives and sparks that hope that April is with him. When the seller won't sell her these rocks because of the color of her skin, she follows him to a rundown motel where she finds The Book of Good Times under a pile of trash. According to the book, she'll have all the answers she needs in two weeks.

Now Miranda, she had the most immersive experience.

Miranda has been working to recreate The Dream. Her PhD program was trying to humanely figure out a way to use interfacing programs to create artificial intelligence. The one thing that put her program on hold was Carl. Carl needed someone like Miranda to take down a more dangerous AI than the one her lab was creating. An AI run by the man who is responsible for April's death. The only problem is.....she has to go work for his company, Altus.

This book was so dimensional and fantastic.

It's written the same way as AART, written as a book by the characters involved.

Great wrap-up to this duology.

Looking for the rest of the series?

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing