The protagonist, Riko, wakes up with time missing and has to unravel the mystery of what's happened to her. This book gives you exactly what you'd expect from the back of the book. I haven't read a lot of cyberpunk so I found it interesting for that, but if you've never thought extreme violence could get dull, you should give this book a try! Even though she knew how to win many of the situations she got herself into, she still got beaten because she couldn't stop trying to solve everything with violence, and that got really frustrating. Her only setting seemed to be rage and violence - even when her girlfriend dies (not a spoiler, it's the inciting incident), she's more concerned with the damage to her reputation.
Riko is in yet another fight, of course she is, let's move on. The book is unrelentingly violent (perhaps trying to evoke a rough life on the streets?) and it burned through any shock value or emotional response pretty early and then became both boring and over-the-top. I enjoyed the cyberpunk ideas and the tough, violent protagonist. This book started as a fun, high-octane adventure about a tech-enhanced mercenary who apparently did something truly terrible during a period of time she can't remember.
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