What a fun read! To be perfectly honest, this did have some flaws and things that, to me, didn't quite add up or felt a bit reductive, but I had so much fun with it that I'm counting this as a new favourite.

Misha is incredibly jaded and I greatly enjoyed him as a protagonist. His dry manner, always ready to tell people to fuck off, felt almost refreshing somehow, probably due to the combination with the frustrating politics and posturing of Hollywood.

Misha as a up and coming screenwriter, who is semi-closeted and fighting his own demons through his screenplays was a great choice and super interesting to read.

Centering the main plot around queer erasure and the questionable rise of AI was and equally great choice. The plot hooks also start right from the beginning in multiple ways, and are just super intriguing.

I also enjoyed the flashback scenes giving background to some of Misha's creations, most of which deal with a childhood trauma of his.
His character arc around his trauma was probably one of my favourites. I greatly enjoyed the horror one too, though that one was almost not as directly scary at some points anymore, though still present and very intense.

The climax of the book was great, though it had a suprisingly long aftermath that made perfect sense in retrospect.

As I said, there were a few things that didn't make sense to me. There are a bunch of other chapters neither dealing with Misha in the present nor flashbacks, and I am very confused why those were there, what they were meant to acchieve, and it didn't make sense to me in the context of the story.
I further found particularly the aftermath of a central culminating event to be very bizarre, in a close to unbelieveable way.
But these things didn't bother me much, and I still had such an amazing time with this!