A review by mmccombs
Upgrade by Blake Crouch

adventurous hopeful medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot

2.5

This was a book! It was like a Bourne movie that I think would make a great movie, but otherwise it was a dud. It was action packed but the characters didn’t do anything for me and I didn’t really care about the stakes. It’s always difficult to portray super humans, especially super intelligence, just because it ended up being him saying things like “wow I wasn’t so smart now but NOW I’m very smart!” rather than seeing him just… be super intelligent. I also just don’t really care about “perfect” men saving the world, it doesn’t tread new ground or do anything meaningful. Not my favorite Blake Crouch novel (it doesn’t even kind of get close to Dark Matter or Recursion) but it was still fun I guess!
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