The irony of a book about the all-consuming nature of social media not holding my attention enough to keep me from picking up my phone and scrolling through Instagram...
An interesting collection of concepts with a pack of wholly unlikeable characters, this was a good 100 pages too long and in need of a content editor, and more importantly, some kind of stakes. I felt like this book was just a jumble of ideas and never really formed its own identity.
I’m sure there was a plot outlined, but it all seemed pretty aimless. She waited till the very end to reveal what the Spill was and never really talked about the fog in any substantive way and by that point, it was basically irrelevant to the story. And when you’re talking about something futuristic, why set it in the past? It automatically sets it up to feel unrealistic. Was it just so she could shoehorn in that quote by “Trump”? I just didn’t get the conclusion the author had built into the Spill either. If everyone had something terrible coming out about them, then why were so many people affected? It would be a cultural wash.
It could’ve been so much better with some focus and edits. Sadly this one was just okay for me.
An interesting collection of concepts with a pack of wholly unlikeable characters, this was a good 100 pages too long and in need of a content editor, and more importantly, some kind of stakes. I felt like this book was just a jumble of ideas and never really formed its own identity.
I’m sure there was a plot outlined, but it all seemed pretty aimless. She waited till the very end to reveal what the Spill was and never really talked about the fog in any substantive way and by that point, it was basically irrelevant to the story. And when you’re talking about something futuristic, why set it in the past? It automatically sets it up to feel unrealistic. Was it just so she could shoehorn in that quote by “Trump”? I just didn’t get the conclusion the author had built into the Spill either. If everyone had something terrible coming out about them, then why were so many people affected? It would be a cultural wash.
It could’ve been so much better with some focus and edits. Sadly this one was just okay for me.