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lancenichols's review
1.0
The premise, based on the introduction blurb, sounded good. The very person responsible for the systems tasked with choosing who needs to die to keep a future post apocalyptic utopian society functioning and balanced is selected to die. He flees only to discover the perfect society he's help control isn't perfect.
Unfortunately I found the prose to be very heavy handed and somewhat awkward with its choice of lots of similes. Word choice and phrasing used to describe the past, such as what was used to inform how all religion had been eliminated, seemed very weighted. It should have been a neutral fact, but combined with other details weighted into "this is a VERY BAD THING™" territory.
A rogue AI (I'm assuming it really was a rogue AI) that the protagonists only refer to as "a demon" is hacking at the security systems of one of the protagonists' imbedded augments and AI. They manage to contain it and eliminate it by hacking it with biblical passages.
No, seriously they treat bible passages like it's some ultra low level code, something beyond even assembly. As soon as I started reading that line, I was done with the book and series.
Unfortunately I found the prose to be very heavy handed and somewhat awkward with its choice of lots of similes. Word choice and phrasing used to describe the past, such as what was used to inform how all religion had been eliminated, seemed very weighted. It should have been a neutral fact, but combined with other details weighted into "this is a VERY BAD THING™" territory.
A rogue AI (I'm assuming it really was a rogue AI) that the protagonists only refer to as "a demon" is hacking at the security systems of one of the protagonists' imbedded augments and AI. They manage to contain it and eliminate it by hacking it with biblical passages.
No, seriously they treat bible passages like it's some ultra low level code, something beyond even assembly. As soon as I started reading that line, I was done with the book and series.
pert's review
3.0
Interesting plot and story-world, but couldn't really care much about the characters.
pbrown12303's review
3.0
Interesting, but...
This book is full of interesting ideas about technology and what it means to be human. Yet, at the same time, it is deeply flawed as a story. The characters have more lives than a dozen cats, implausibly surviving crisis after crises. A mixed bag. A strong editor would have greatly improved this book.
This book is full of interesting ideas about technology and what it means to be human. Yet, at the same time, it is deeply flawed as a story. The characters have more lives than a dozen cats, implausibly surviving crisis after crises. A mixed bag. A strong editor would have greatly improved this book.
jcox27's review
5.0
This book was an off an on Hard read, however the twist at the end makes me want to go out and get the Next in the series
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