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A review by vendea
Machinehood by S.B. Divya
1.0
The short review: don't waste your time.
The long review: I was reading and reading along, rather dragging myself through the mud puddle of prose that comprised this book, and while I could pick out plenty of individual things that were annoying me, I couldn't put my finger on the overarching cause of my distaste for the book until at least three quarters of the way through. I finally realized: this book is incredibly immature. If I had to guess I would say it was a first novel. If it wasn't, it sure feels like it. The story, characters, and world building are all fundamentally contradictory - which would have been a fun conceit, if the author was aware of it. I don't think she was.
Everyone takes some innumerable amount of pills every day to stay alive. Everyone thinks this is great. Bots do everything and humans subsist by...being entertaining? It really is the gig economy taken to the extreme except in a really dumb way. Yeah everyone uses one global currency...which is all digital...so it all freezes when the net goes down...I'm sorry the whole smart modular clothes and houses is actually one of the worst ideas i have ever heard and i got sick of it being mentioned every five seconds. People can't cook, etc. etc. No thanks. This is not a world I wish to return to.
The long review: I was reading and reading along, rather dragging myself through the mud puddle of prose that comprised this book, and while I could pick out plenty of individual things that were annoying me, I couldn't put my finger on the overarching cause of my distaste for the book until at least three quarters of the way through. I finally realized: this book is incredibly immature. If I had to guess I would say it was a first novel. If it wasn't, it sure feels like it. The story, characters, and world building are all fundamentally contradictory - which would have been a fun conceit, if the author was aware of it. I don't think she was.
Everyone takes some innumerable amount of pills every day to stay alive. Everyone thinks this is great. Bots do everything and humans subsist by...being entertaining? It really is the gig economy taken to the extreme except in a really dumb way. Yeah everyone uses one global currency...which is all digital...so it all freezes when the net goes down...I'm sorry the whole smart modular clothes and houses is actually one of the worst ideas i have ever heard and i got sick of it being mentioned every five seconds. People can't cook, etc. etc. No thanks. This is not a world I wish to return to.