Alejandra
So I did like this book in the end, especially the last show down. I liked the main character was a empathetic pacifist but still had sass and a spine.
However I did have some problems with the world building. It's established there are only two empaths in the entirety of Seattle, which has a population of 815,000. If its the same percentage across the world, that means there are less than 750 empaths in the US and less than 20,000 world wide. Yet there are main stream products, services, and other things are tailored for empaths. If a pharmaceutical company saw a disease that rare they'd rather laugh in someones face before putting a dollar of research into it. Sure I understand the government agencies especially with the whole corrupted empaths thing but having games and streaming services especially for empaths? I wish the author upped the number of empaths just a tiny bit like to .1% of the population (rather than the current .00000245%) just to make those aspects a little more believable. This seems like a nitpick but it's emphasized throughout the book empaths seem to be a major aspect of pop culture and a constant political topic and this is even without the general population knowing about corrupted empaths..
So I did like this book in the end, especially the last show down. I liked the main character was a empathetic pacifist but still had sass and a spine.
However I did have some problems with the world building. It's established there are only two empaths in the entirety of Seattle, which has a population of 815,000. If its the same percentage across the world, that means there are less than 750 empaths in the US and less than 20,000 world wide. Yet there are main stream products, services, and other things are tailored for empaths. If a pharmaceutical company saw a disease that rare they'd rather laugh in someones face before putting a dollar of research into it. Sure I understand the government agencies especially with the whole corrupted empaths thing but having games and streaming services especially for empaths? I wish the author upped the number of empaths just a tiny bit like to .1% of the population (rather than the current .00000245%) just to make those aspects a little more believable. This seems like a nitpick but it's emphasized throughout the book empaths seem to be a major aspect of pop culture and a constant political topic and this is even without the general population knowing about corrupted empaths..