(I received this book for free as part of Goodreads First Reads giveaways).
(This review may contain spoilers).
I have to say… if it wasn’t for the fact that, partway through the book, the main character really went down in my estimation, I would have given this book four stars. As it stands, I’d put it at 3.5 stars.
The blurb of the book was one that was particularly intriguing… and the cover of the book was really engaging, too.
I liked the use of the technology in the book. I think I misunderstood the blurb when I read it originally, but I’m not going to say what I read it as being about, because it turned out that misunderstanding was actually a part of the book. So when certain things weren’t revealed, I wasn’t all that surprised.
I liked Steve, up to a point, but I kind of lost a lot of my respect for his character with the way he ignored his daughter and didn’t even seem to think about her for ages. I think I would have found it interesting to see more of the book from Brooke’s point of view. She was a character I personally felt I could empathise better with.
There were some parts of the book that I had trouble understanding. I don’t think that’s anything about the author; I just felt, at times, that I was only hanging onto understanding by a thread. I did more or less understand the ending of the book, though, and felt that it worked – and that’s one of the most important things about reading a book, at least in my opinion.
The book was really well-written and I had little difficulty picturing a lot of the events in my mind. The descriptions of the technology was mostly easy to understand, apart from a couple of minor things. The only real problem, as mentioned above, was Steve’s character.
I did think the changing of POV to the victims’ worked quite well. There were a couple of periods where I really felt like I could feel the same emotions that they felt.
I don’t know for certain if I’d read a sequel to this book, but I’d probably look at other books by this author in the future.
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