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A review by jennrocca
CyberStorm by Matthew Mather
2.0
* contains a tiny spoiler - not bad - but a tiny one - in paragraph 2 *
I waffled between 2 stars and 3. It's a survival story and I typically like those. I don't even mind if they are a little unrealistic. I'm OK with the premise that the entire internet collapsed due to cyber attack(s) (or whatever) and that all other forms of communications failed. I'm OK with the fact that people were completely isolated and falling apart in a snow-pocalypse Manhattan. That's fine. But there was a periodic tone of preachiness or sermonizing that was very annoying. I felt like the author was squeezing in moral lessons that really pulled me out of the story line and made me feel disgust.
Also (small spoiler coming) the women are completely useless characters until, literally, the last two chapters.
It had some neat plot points, some great insights into people and how they organize in disasters. It had great integration of technology and *lack* of technology. But the preachy overtones left me cold and distant. Not as bad as "One Second After" - but close.
I waffled between 2 stars and 3. It's a survival story and I typically like those. I don't even mind if they are a little unrealistic. I'm OK with the premise that the entire internet collapsed due to cyber attack(s) (or whatever) and that all other forms of communications failed. I'm OK with the fact that people were completely isolated and falling apart in a snow-pocalypse Manhattan. That's fine. But there was a periodic tone of preachiness or sermonizing that was very annoying. I felt like the author was squeezing in moral lessons that really pulled me out of the story line and made me feel disgust.
Also (small spoiler coming) the women are completely useless characters until, literally, the last two chapters.
It had some neat plot points, some great insights into people and how they organize in disasters. It had great integration of technology and *lack* of technology. But the preachy overtones left me cold and distant. Not as bad as "One Second After" - but close.