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A review by reasie
Side Life by Steve Toutonghi
4.0
Excellently thoughtful, and the protagonist's journey from unlikeable tech twat to zen-like self-awareness is perfectly believable in a way that's genuinely hard to achieve.
The tech feels believable in an unbelievable way and the stakes are truly terrifying.
The only reason I'm not giving it five stars is, well, the ending is very literary... we are left with lots and lots of questions... the few that are answered are answered rather roughly. (The bit with M. and J. near the end I say to avoid spoilers. Touch rushed.)
I mean... the whole point is that the hero has to give up his "drug of choice" -- the need to know answers. But to a spec fic fan in particular that's hard to accept. Which is kind of brilliant, but sorry I'm still taking your last star. My review and I am a capricious god. :D
The tech feels believable in an unbelievable way and the stakes are truly terrifying.
The only reason I'm not giving it five stars is, well, the ending is very literary... we are left with lots and lots of questions... the few that are answered are answered rather roughly. (The bit with M. and J. near the end I say to avoid spoilers. Touch rushed.)
I mean... the whole point is that the hero has to give up his "drug of choice" -- the need to know answers. But to a spec fic fan in particular that's hard to accept. Which is kind of brilliant, but sorry I'm still taking your last star. My review and I am a capricious god. :D