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A review by halcyon_rising
The Forever Watch by David B. Ramirez
5.0
Okay. I finished this book yesterday, which makes today a perfect day to write down a few words on it.
Obviously, I really liked the book since I gave it 5 stars. Some might say that the storyline was a typical subject in Sci-Fi books and therefore had some level of predictability, I still thought the book was well worth the read/my time, anyway.
There's a few things I'd like to say about the ending:
- Second, the endings that Hana saw for her friends. A quick summary of what happened to whom is always such an odd thing, isn't it? Which person ends up with a HEA, which one doesn't... In this case, who is going to have a longer life (Leo, Hennessy) and who will be Mincemeat soon (Jazz, Marcus). It was a bit of a shock to read that pretty quickly a person or two, three from Hana's former friends died from it as well, so at what rate people truly do seem to die. Which brings us to the following:
- Third, Archie the fast-learning AI versus the mission to save mankind. Archie grew so quickly, not only in the Web but later when she tried to save Hana's life, or stall her death as much as possible. She's such a fantastic piece of technology, a great 'invention'. What I don't get is why they never tried to see if an AI couldn't solve the problems mankind is facing. Why exactly can they not cure the disease(s) they have? Have they not found the damages in their own DNA? They must have? If not, can't Archie? Karla just waved that possibility away, trying to ever find a cure. With the mission now needing more than 800 years again before the end point, why not take that time to try. 800 years should be enough. It's ridiculously long, in fact.
There, that was it. ;)
Thanks for the awesome read, should the author ever read this, and we hope to be hearing from you again!
Obviously, I really liked the book since I gave it 5 stars. Some might say that the storyline was a typical subject in Sci-Fi books and therefore had some level of predictability, I still thought the book was well worth the read/my time, anyway.
There's a few things I'd like to say about the ending:
Spoiler
- First, about Hana. I wasn't sure until we really saw her ending what exactly was going to happen, but I guess I'm semi-happy with it. Archie had a lot of time to repair things in her body to keep her on a certain level of health, and though it seemed that Hana did look like half a robot near her death, Archie didn't succeed in fixing her up enough for her to stay alive. It could honestly, from my perspective (fan, not scientist), have gone either way, but I guess the author chose not to have had Archie work faster so that she did survive. (Imagine Karla's face. :P)- Second, the endings that Hana saw for her friends. A quick summary of what happened to whom is always such an odd thing, isn't it? Which person ends up with a HEA, which one doesn't... In this case, who is going to have a longer life (Leo, Hennessy) and who will be Mincemeat soon (Jazz, Marcus). It was a bit of a shock to read that pretty quickly a person or two, three from Hana's former friends died from it as well, so at what rate people truly do seem to die. Which brings us to the following:
- Third, Archie the fast-learning AI versus the mission to save mankind. Archie grew so quickly, not only in the Web but later when she tried to save Hana's life, or stall her death as much as possible. She's such a fantastic piece of technology, a great 'invention'. What I don't get is why they never tried to see if an AI couldn't solve the problems mankind is facing. Why exactly can they not cure the disease(s) they have? Have they not found the damages in their own DNA? They must have? If not, can't Archie? Karla just waved that possibility away, trying to ever find a cure. With the mission now needing more than 800 years again before the end point, why not take that time to try. 800 years should be enough. It's ridiculously long, in fact.
There, that was it. ;)
Thanks for the awesome read, should the author ever read this, and we hope to be hearing from you again!