A review by bexellency
Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams

2.0

Huh.  This book was going alright.  Katie Williams displays the same light technology - definitely future tech but just enough to enable the story - as I’d seen in My Murder.  And seemed to be heading for the same themes of mothers and their willingness to do anything for their children (which shouldn’t have surprised me as I believe authors only have one story to tell but still disappointed me as I like her writing but that theme doesn’t do anything for me).  And then I hit the

middle of the book where the narrative viewpoint suiddenly switches away from Pearl, without motivation and follows Ethan and Vela  for a while.  From that point on, the book lost the plot, or at least I did.  Nothing made much sense or had much impact after that.  The narrative tension was gone.  The ending abrupt.  While I didn’t love how My Murder ended, it was strong through to the end, whereas this got aimless.  Things end happy ever after but not really.  Was there a point to the story that I missed?