Inspection

As a very long time fan of speculative fiction, I'm gonna say something.

This is not a horror book.

Now maybe some more hard core horror fans might disagree, but having glanced through reviews after having finished, I suspect at least some of the lower rated reviews are because of misled expectations. Because this is not a horror book.

This is a Science Fiction book.

All through the book I kept waiting for horror elements. Other than a couple of very minor things early on, and the very very last bit, there really didn't seem to be any. And the entire time I kept thinking that I felt like I was reading a SF dystopia novel instead.

Yeah, its not in the future. There's no advanced tech or space travel. No robots or alien intelligences. There is nothing that says this could not be happening at this very instant in our very real world. But the ideas seem very SF to me.

I recommend this book. I enjoyed it. But check your expectations at the door.