A review by kwsydney
Walkaway by Cory Doctorow

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

⭐️: 3.5/5

  • The book is really trying hard to be uniquely futuristic. Coffee doesn’t need to be “coffeeum”. And I know they end up describing the differences, but that’s way too late in the book to not feel *irony intended* like they’re trying to be special snowflakes with the terminology 
  • The descriptions of events are either very elementary (mostly dialogue with the bare minimum world descriptions and action) or incredibly unnecessarily scientific (talking about synapses firing to say it felt good) 
  • This book does not need open door sex scenes. Especially when phrases like “boy nipple”, “they played with muscles and gravity”, and “his armpits smelled like clean sweat” are used. 
  • Incredibly interesting topic. Really, what WOULD happen is people just started walking away from normalized society?
  • This book touches on, arguably too many, heavily debated and thought provoking topics. Just some of these topics include: economic class divide, distribution of wealth and resources, what it means to be human, and what defines a valuable life. 
  • The lovability of the characters really sneaks up on you 
  • There’s a huge difference in the interest between POVs

Notes: political conflict, runaways, uploaded consciousness,