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emilyrainsford's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
4.0
This was a dark and gritty kind of future dystopian story about a world where adults can print anything they want from 3D printers, and children are taken at birth and made to do child labour until adulthood.
I went into this completely blind, i didn't even read the synopsis. I spent the first 3/4 of the book feeling like I had absolutely no freaking idea what was going to happen from one moment to the next, and as a pretty prolific reader, I'm always happy when that happens. I love being kept completely guessing by a book.
I'm not entirely sure some of the worldbuilding made sense (why would anyone voluntarily have children in this world? what do they do with the babies until they can work?) but you know what, the plot scoots along at such a pace that I just rolled with it.
There were quite a lot of pretty interesting concepts explored though, like the idea that someone without a conscience could take a pill to get one, or the idea of everyone having a sim in their head and being able to essentially read everyone else's thoughts, or access the internet instantaneously with their brain sim. You definitely felt the desperation of being trapped in a world like this and how hard it would be to escape into the fringes.
I did feel that the end was a little rushed and I wished that could have been fleshed out and explored a little more.
It's a pretty bleak read, and not one where you grow any fondness or attachment to the characters. It did keep me pretty intrigued the whole way though and had a lot of interesting ideas.
I went into this completely blind, i didn't even read the synopsis. I spent the first 3/4 of the book feeling like I had absolutely no freaking idea what was going to happen from one moment to the next, and as a pretty prolific reader, I'm always happy when that happens. I love being kept completely guessing by a book.
I'm not entirely sure some of the worldbuilding made sense (why would anyone voluntarily have children in this world? what do they do with the babies until they can work?) but you know what, the plot scoots along at such a pace that I just rolled with it.
There were quite a lot of pretty interesting concepts explored though, like the idea that someone without a conscience could take a pill to get one, or the idea of everyone having a sim in their head and being able to essentially read everyone else's thoughts, or access the internet instantaneously with their brain sim. You definitely felt the desperation of being trapped in a world like this and how hard it would be to escape into the fringes.
I did feel that the end was a little rushed and I wished that could have been fleshed out and explored a little more.
It's a pretty bleak read, and not one where you grow any fondness or attachment to the characters. It did keep me pretty intrigued the whole way though and had a lot of interesting ideas.
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