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Rough read for me, coming at it directly after Snow Crash. It was mindless entertainment, but not in a particularly good way.
Written like a YA, which makes sense, because it is. Be ready for a bunch of self doubt and anxiety from someone who can flabbergast one of the most technologically advanced people on the planet within a minute. Be ready for her to bring up her dead dad once a chapter, and be ready for the switch from grungy, grimy, bottom of the barrel lifestyle to absolute wealth porn.
This book has some strong points; compared to Ready Player One, it actually has a bit of a plot and better handwaving for VR. Compared with Snow Crash, its representation of edgy girls with skateboards is far better. But that's about where the strong points end.
It is woefully unspecific as to how the mechanics of anything works. Hacking something? "She typed furiously against her leg, hacking into the thing." Doing anything technologically advanced? "It was so advanced, she'd never seen it before. She did the thing with it and was impressed." Walk into a room? "It was really big and open and shiny and had the good architecture that cost lots of money and everything in it was expensive."
If these issues bother you, don't read it. They're everywhere. It's incredible how vague everything is- it's actually an accomplishment for the author to have done this and still pulled a story out of it. Props to her.
I will not be reading it again. Only recommended to people that desperately need some near future virtual reality entertainment.
Written like a YA, which makes sense, because it is. Be ready for a bunch of self doubt and anxiety from someone who can flabbergast one of the most technologically advanced people on the planet within a minute. Be ready for her to bring up her dead dad once a chapter, and be ready for the switch from grungy, grimy, bottom of the barrel lifestyle to absolute wealth porn.
This book has some strong points; compared to Ready Player One, it actually has a bit of a plot and better handwaving for VR. Compared with Snow Crash, its representation of edgy girls with skateboards is far better. But that's about where the strong points end.
It is woefully unspecific as to how the mechanics of anything works. Hacking something? "She typed furiously against her leg, hacking into the thing." Doing anything technologically advanced? "It was so advanced, she'd never seen it before. She did the thing with it and was impressed." Walk into a room? "It was really big and open and shiny and had the good architecture that cost lots of money and everything in it was expensive."
If these issues bother you, don't read it. They're everywhere. It's incredible how vague everything is- it's actually an accomplishment for the author to have done this and still pulled a story out of it. Props to her.
I will not be reading it again. Only recommended to people that desperately need some near future virtual reality entertainment.