Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

So 2% in and this happens.   The main character who I can't even... ugh.   Okay, let it go, she gets asked if she's blind.   

"I'm ashamed of the fact, and I generally try to navigate without using the collapsible white cane that rests tucked away in my backpack.   It feels like a badge of disgrace, announcing my disability to the world."

So... falling constantly is less disgraceful?   Doesn't that call attention to the fact that you're blind?   There's a reason blind people don't go, 'fuck it, I don't want people to know I'm blind, so I'll just not use my cane'   No, no, no.   Not to mention, the disability is treated as awful later on, when the doctors come to try and convince her to join a study that might give her sight back.   

It's about how she see, how wonderful it will be, how deserving she is because of how smart she is.   (I guess people who aren't as clever as her don't deserve to have their sight back as much?   Overall, there are a whole bunch of messages here that I think the author didn't think through too much.)

Much like this cane issue. 

Because later on - and I mean 4% in - she says of the building she's currently in: "'For some reason, I have a class in this building- but I never come here, so I'm not that familiar with the layout.'"

Well, it sounds super smart that you're not using your cane.   Because things that are potential dangers include: walls, stairs, cracks, people not watching where they're going on a college campus and not realizing you're blind, and... basically the floor?   Again, reason blind people don't go to places they're not familiar with and keep their canes in their backpacks.  

I'd say TSTL, but the truth is I'm imagining the main character - I don't care enough to remember her name - trying to cross streets, and figure not having to use a cane is the least of her problems because how is she not dead yet????

Unless she's Lady Daredevil, this does not make sense. 

And it goes downhill from there, including the 'authors are special snowflakes' insert because the main author is an author and can't bear the criticisms of her work. 

I'm tempted to DNF, but do you know how hard it is to find good fiction with blind protagonists?   This is not helping.   Throw it into the pits of Kaon.