Amanda
Your estranged mother calls you out of the blue and tells you her evil tech corporation will give you an obscene amount of money for very little work if you sign a stack of papers. If the driver the company sends repeatedly urges you to read the papers before signing, do you: A) read the papers? B) ask to be taken back to the airport and forget the whole thing? C) decide he's being "patronizing" and "patriarchal" and quickly sign everything out of spite?
If you answered C, then you will probably love Julia, one of the POV characters of Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep. I think Tremblay thinks she's an intelligent and complex character, but I think she's a collection of pop culture references who is as dumb as a box of rocks.
The chapters from the other POV character, called You, are what keep me from giving this book an even lower rating. They are disorienting, a little frightening, and compelling. I probably would have have given the book four stars if it had been reworked to be solely from You's POV.
Received via NetGalley.
Your estranged mother calls you out of the blue and tells you her evil tech corporation will give you an obscene amount of money for very little work if you sign a stack of papers. If the driver the company sends repeatedly urges you to read the papers before signing, do you: A) read the papers? B) ask to be taken back to the airport and forget the whole thing? C) decide he's being "patronizing" and "patriarchal" and quickly sign everything out of spite?
If you answered C, then you will probably love Julia, one of the POV characters of Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep. I think Tremblay thinks she's an intelligent and complex character, but I think she's a collection of pop culture references who is as dumb as a box of rocks.
The chapters from the other POV character, called You, are what keep me from giving this book an even lower rating. They are disorienting, a little frightening, and compelling. I probably would have have given the book four stars if it had been reworked to be solely from You's POV.
Received via NetGalley.