Ben Bedo

Ugh.

I very rarely will “review” books on Goodreads, but I feel like this one warrants a little bit of time.

I wanted to like this book. I was supposed to eat this book up. I completely fit the demographic (stereotype?) of tech-enthusiast/professional that this book is aimed towards and marketed to. But as hard as I tried, I couldn't get into it. This book took me just over a month to read, and I can normally knock a book this size out in a week.

This and Daemon both read like Suarez was trying REALLY hard to get Jerry Bruckheimer to notice and adapt it into the next big summer blockbuster – and maybe that's what I didn't like about it. The dialog seemed too clever; as plausible as the idea of a Daemon taking over our economy is, some of the dialog between the characters was laughably impossible (and therefore, off-putting). I dunno, I was just disappointed.

I keep reading great reviews, so if you're really looking forward to reading this, don't let this review deter you.