Invisible Soft Return:\

This book was painful to read. It felt like an overblown rumination on reality and existence. It hardly had a plot. The point of view often changed between first and third person without warning. It was also difficult to tell who the main character was talking to at any point, and it was hard to tell who was speaking at any given time. Every character sounded the same, using the same haughty philosophical language as they pondered reality versus virtual reality. There was a second story within the story which was somewhat coherent, but I never figured out its relationship to the main story. I got within fifty pages of the end and simply could not bring myself to finish it. So if there was any sort of reconciliation between the main story and the secondary story, I didn't get to it. For some reason, this book was nominated for a Lambda Literary award for SF/Fantasy/Horror in 2014. It must have been a slow year, being nominated just because it had some lesbian content.

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