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3.17 AVERAGE
3.17 AVERAGE
Loved the premise and liked the writing but didn't like the execution or the characters. The techno-babble was unconvincing and a bit hand-wawey to me and the characters were a notch too stereotypical. To me, anyways.
fast & suspenseful & fun narration - Mira is a great love her then hate her character - just maybe a few too many "wait, what is going on exactly?" moments. But I won't round down to 3 for those because it might have been my fault for forgetting the book at home for a few days. The whole concept was farfetched enough to be scifi but with enough reality to be spooky.
Unrelated to the story, I dig how the publisher included a trigger warning that neatly avoided spoilers, that was well done.
Unrelated to the story, I dig how the publisher included a trigger warning that neatly avoided spoilers, that was well done.
[b:Revision|25353534|Revision|Andrea Phillips|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1428951399s/25353534.jpg|44436046] has an intereting premise that hooked me in- a Wikipedia-style website that can change reality when edited. When Mira's boyfriend Benji breaks up with her, she accesses his news website Verity and alters the information, writing that they were getting married. And then Benji proposes to her... Changing information in Verity has real world effects and Mira is in danger.
I should have really enjoyed this novel, the plot was interesting and the snarky first person narration was fun. However, there were three main problems that stand out to me. I really struggled to like and care about Mira. She is a trust-fund baby who cares about herself above all else. Her relationship with Benji is shallow and even though they have only been dating for five months, she happily accepts her engineered proposal. She wrecks havoc on the lives of those she claims to love and friends are only resources to be used when she needs them. She was emotionally immature to the point of frustration. There was also what I saw as a weird plothole or inconsistency- Benji realises that his proposal to Mira was prompted by her altering Verity but he doesn't seem to care at all. Shouldn't he have felt something, considering he was now engaged to marry Mira simply because she had typed it into Verity on a whim?
The main issue, though, with Revision for me was the handling of a sexual assault. Mira was assaulted by a character and later makes excuses for his behaviour and even attempts to apologise and make peace with the man. I found it really troubling the way that the assault was looked back on as just one more douche-y move from a crappy guy, and hey, he'd lost his job and was getting a divorce, so it was understandable that he had assaulted the narrator.
I found it really disappointing and it interfered with my enjoyment of the novel as a whole.
I should have really enjoyed this novel, the plot was interesting and the snarky first person narration was fun. However, there were three main problems that stand out to me. I really struggled to like and care about Mira. She is a trust-fund baby who cares about herself above all else. Her relationship with Benji is shallow and even though they have only been dating for five months, she happily accepts her engineered proposal. She wrecks havoc on the lives of those she claims to love and friends are only resources to be used when she needs them. She was emotionally immature to the point of frustration. There was also what I saw as a weird plothole or inconsistency- Benji realises that his proposal to Mira was prompted by her altering Verity but he doesn't seem to care at all. Shouldn't he have felt something, considering he was now engaged to marry Mira simply because she had typed it into Verity on a whim?
The main issue, though, with Revision for me was the handling of a sexual assault. Mira was assaulted by a character and later makes excuses for his behaviour and even attempts to apologise and make peace with the man. I found it really troubling the way that the assault was looked back on as just one more douche-y move from a crappy guy, and hey, he'd lost his job and was getting a divorce, so it was understandable that he had assaulted the narrator.
I found it really disappointing and it interfered with my enjoyment of the novel as a whole.