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A review by topazreads
Plague Birds by Jason Sanford
3.0
The ideas in the book were intriguing and the beginning drew me in. However, it was a slog to get through.
The book follows Christa, a human-wolf hybrid 10,000 plus years from now. She is selected to take on a blood AI and become a Plague Bird, a one-stop police officer/Judge/executioner. Something she has not only NO interest in, but has a SERIOUS aversion to as she watched her mother be killed by a Plague Bird. However, she has no real choice in the matter.
The story follows her as she journeys to Seed - the last populated city. Along the way she battles the Veil, a group working to overthrow the current system the world is operating under, meets a monk who becomes her love interest, fights through a forest that tries to kill her, befriends a child who turns out to be an all-powerful alien that could destroy the world, finds a dead Plague Bird, meets two more Plague Birds that want her dead, interacts a few times with her old boyfriend that tried to kill her, befriends an AI in the city of Seed, and then the city itself.
There is SO much going on with the world building, the history, the AIs that run everything. But somehow we really don’t (at least I don’t) feel like we know what Christa wants other that to get through the hell that is now her life.
All of the ideas in the book made me stop and think although they are not new ideas. As much as it took me to get through it after the initial intrigue, the ending felt rushed. There has to be a next installment…
Overall, I’m still thinking about the ideas and the story. Glad I picked it up.
The book follows Christa, a human-wolf hybrid 10,000 plus years from now. She is selected to take on a blood AI and become a Plague Bird, a one-stop police officer/Judge/executioner. Something she has not only NO interest in, but has a SERIOUS aversion to as she watched her mother be killed by a Plague Bird. However, she has no real choice in the matter.
The story follows her as she journeys to Seed - the last populated city. Along the way she battles the Veil, a group working to overthrow the current system the world is operating under, meets a monk who becomes her love interest, fights through a forest that tries to kill her, befriends a child who turns out to be an all-powerful alien that could destroy the world, finds a dead Plague Bird, meets two more Plague Birds that want her dead, interacts a few times with her old boyfriend that tried to kill her, befriends an AI in the city of Seed, and then the city itself.
There is SO much going on with the world building, the history, the AIs that run everything. But somehow we really don’t (at least I don’t) feel like we know what Christa wants other that to get through the hell that is now her life.
All of the ideas in the book made me stop and think although they are not new ideas. As much as it took me to get through it after the initial intrigue, the ending felt rushed. There has to be a next installment…
Overall, I’m still thinking about the ideas and the story. Glad I picked it up.