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A review by whipcreamsucks
The Ones Who Look by Katharine Duckett
i don't know what to say about this. it's well-written and i want the @ of the artist who designed the gorgeous cover, but the whole point of this story is that even the afterlife isn't safe from capitalism. which is kinda funny and absolutely terrifying if you think about it.
this has seriously good potential, but it turns out to be like your typical utopian-dystopian. our protag zoe has a job where she essentially sees everyone's sins and accounts for whether they get into heaven or h-e-double hockey sticks. she moves to the paris branch of her work and has a bad relationship with her mum and her dad died by suicide after they signed up for the heaven app. and then it's revealed that the plot twist is that.
i wanted so badly to love this story. i have every reason to! i could put aside being a horrible snob about my hatred for utopian-dystopian because the whole idea of being so advanced and all-seeing and yet only finding out that despite all this is that no one actually really knows what happens after death is such a freakingly good concept. maybe the whole reason why it feels so open-ended and non-concrete is an allusion to that too, or i'm looking too much into it. but the main reason why i'm ultimately going to not rate this is because i truly do not know what to think. i've had enough crises of faith to have any real opinion about these things.
this has seriously good potential, but it turns out to be like your typical utopian-dystopian. our protag zoe has a job where she essentially sees everyone's sins and accounts for whether they get into heaven or h-e-double hockey sticks. she moves to the paris branch of her work and has a bad relationship with her mum and her dad died by suicide after they signed up for the heaven app. and then it's revealed that the plot twist is that
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heaven is not actually real? and everyone who is dead is just.....in a simulation of paradise or not there? and in the end zoe just chooses to go where her father (or the digital copy of her dead father) is and leave the literal world behindi wanted so badly to love this story. i have every reason to! i could put aside being a horrible snob about my hatred for utopian-dystopian because the whole idea of being so advanced and all-seeing and yet only finding out that despite all this is that no one actually really knows what happens after death is such a freakingly good concept. maybe the whole reason why it feels so open-ended and non-concrete is an allusion to that too, or i'm looking too much into it. but the main reason why i'm ultimately going to not rate this is because i truly do not know what to think. i've had enough crises of faith to have any real opinion about these things.