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A review by snowcrash
Nylon Angel by Marianne de Pierres
2.0
The book has a good setup on the back cover that I picked it up on sale. I hadn't heard of the author, more bonus points. Set in a late 21st century part of eastern Australia, we are given a 1st person narrative of a lady down deep in the filth of living on the edge. But it then falls apart.
The narrative has too many two, three word sentences that end with an exclamation point. Lots of them! (Like that) It pulls from the narrative that this is supposed to be a hard boiled fighter, not a teenager on twitter. The cyberpunk angle is weak. Mainly body augments here, but little else. These folks use disks (one is called a Zip disk, dating the book) and hacking seems to be simply pressing a lot of keys. As our hero does in finding a backdoor in super heavy cyber security.
The main character bounces around in the plot, but she doesn't actually do much. The whole book swirls around her, but she can't get anything together. Plus there is voodoo. I felt the book was trying to hard to be too many things at the same time. Pick a couple and run with it (the media aspect of using the poor as entertainment for the rich is one). Plus build up the characters better. The main character isn't all that interesting to be riding on her shoulder for nearly 300 pages.
There is one point where the book touches 21st century pop culture. The media, whom actually run things and are above any law, say that a specific escape conducted by our heroine was "Mission-Impossible like."
The narrative has too many two, three word sentences that end with an exclamation point. Lots of them! (Like that) It pulls from the narrative that this is supposed to be a hard boiled fighter, not a teenager on twitter. The cyberpunk angle is weak. Mainly body augments here, but little else. These folks use disks (one is called a Zip disk, dating the book) and hacking seems to be simply pressing a lot of keys. As our hero does in finding a backdoor in super heavy cyber security.
The main character bounces around in the plot, but she doesn't actually do much. The whole book swirls around her, but she can't get anything together. Plus there is voodoo. I felt the book was trying to hard to be too many things at the same time. Pick a couple and run with it (the media aspect of using the poor as entertainment for the rich is one). Plus build up the characters better. The main character isn't all that interesting to be riding on her shoulder for nearly 300 pages.
There is one point where the book touches 21st century pop culture. The media, whom actually run things and are above any law, say that a specific escape conducted by our heroine was "Mission-Impossible like."