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A review by lisawreading
The Dark Net by Benjamin Percy
3.0
This book wasn't what I expected. I was looking forward to inventive techno-horror... but didn't really get that until the final third of the book. Instead, we spend time with the main characters as they deal with the evil building up in Portland as the literal gates of Hell threaten to spill open and engulf the world. Parts of this book feel very 70s-throwback-ish, like The Omen with technology, as all sorts of demonic entities, including hellhounds and various gross and disgusting things come teeming out at people from dark corners... and it's up to our ragtag bunch of misfit heroes to save the day.
In the final part of the book, we see how the forces of evil use the ubiquitous network of tech to infiltrate every person's consiousness, providing a dire look at just how wired in and dependent we truly are (as if we had any doubt).
The Dark Net is a quick, sometimes gross, sometimes scary read that frightens more with its reflections on our lack of privacy in our cyber-dominated lives than by its invocation of demons and evil gaining world domination.
In the final part of the book, we see how the forces of evil use the ubiquitous network of tech to infiltrate every person's consiousness, providing a dire look at just how wired in and dependent we truly are (as if we had any doubt).
The Dark Net is a quick, sometimes gross, sometimes scary read that frightens more with its reflections on our lack of privacy in our cyber-dominated lives than by its invocation of demons and evil gaining world domination.