Rating: 2 stars (out of 5)
Genre: science fiction
Review: Imagine that we have allowed the Internet to literally take over our brains, so that we don't even need to think about wanting information or remembering anything. Everything we could ever want to know or remember is simply available with the hint of a thought question. But what happens when "the Feed" collapses? Supposedly, that's the question behind this book, but the real story takes place 6 years after "the Collapse" and we only see glimpses of the immediate aftermath. We're to understand, though, that many people were so completely undone by the lack of the Feed that they couldn't function and died. This premise is believable, since the Feed stored everyone's memories of everything and had even supplanted most verbal language. So fine, population decimated, cities ruined, everyone left majorly traumatized, ok. But Tom and Kate have found a haven, though a tenuous one, with a few other survivors. That's all background.
The story really begins, or at least I think it's supposed to really begin when Tom and Kate's daughter is kidnapped and they go off in search of her. Except that all that really happens is that they walk. A lot. Don't get me wrong, things do happen, some of them fairly dramatic, except the drama feels like mere blips in a boring landscape, and is so disconnected from everything else that I couldn't bring myself to care much about what was going on.
FTC Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher in exchange for this review.
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