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alyssahugs's review against another edition
4.0
I liked it - wanted to love it. It felt like it was missing a piece that could have woven it all together better. Something to make you want to keep going. Sometimes it just jumped from lengthy descriptions of one department to the next with no good connecting piece other than Delaney. It also felt like there were more than a few loose ends. That being said it was a little scary how every so often I’d hear the idea for an app or program and think “actually that is a good idea” even while realizing that is exactly what started this mess of The Every to begin with. I imagine the elements of truth in his book are what make it so scary.
micastoffie's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
rosaliethayer's review against another edition
3.0
I understand what he was doing with it, but I’m wholly disappointed with the ending.
almyworld's review against another edition
4.0
The Every is the sequel to The Circle and plays in the near future after the happenings of The Circle. While the narrator in the novel The Circle, Mae, is working for the completion and therefore is not reliable due to her loyalty to the company and its morals, the narrator in The Every is the complete opposite. Delaney, the narrator in The Every, tries to take the company down from within, becoming somewhat of a spy in a complex, where everything is always seen and known. While it was interesting to get to know so many different sites of the companies apps and products, I must say that at some point it became too much and unnecessary slowed down the story taking place. While all these presentations were in the foreground, the character development and the development of the relationships between the members and Delaney were more in the background, which made the progress more slyly. The tension was in ¾ of the novel comparatively very low and rose high the last sides of this book, it really got me on my toes. The dramatic change of perspective at the end really adds to that.
chicdeac's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
atourek's review against another edition
dark
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
singingsfun's review against another edition
challenging
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Favorite Quotes:
“All of my students are overwhelmed. It is not because the workload has changed, because it has not. The students now are taking a normal college workload, which has been stressful enough for hundreds of years, but they have added 1000 messages to read and write, to send, process. It is too much.”
“That is manifestly a form of madness, of monomania, and yet this level of contact and availability is as a prerequisite to participating in society… the rise of suicide these last 20 years is so obvious a result of too entwined products of the digital age. The catastrophic health results of manic, and largely meaningless, mental activity and the lack of real purpose. No one is resting and no one is accomplishing anything of real worth.”
“All of my students are overwhelmed. It is not because the workload has changed, because it has not. The students now are taking a normal college workload, which has been stressful enough for hundreds of years, but they have added 1000 messages to read and write, to send, process. It is too much.”
“That is manifestly a form of madness, of monomania, and yet this level of contact and availability is as a prerequisite to participating in society… the rise of suicide these last 20 years is so obvious a result of too entwined products of the digital age. The catastrophic health results of manic, and largely meaningless, mental activity and the lack of real purpose. No one is resting and no one is accomplishing anything of real worth.”
evathebug's review against another edition
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
4.0
charlotter191's review against another edition
adventurous
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0