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For Fans Of: Dark Matter, The Fold, All Our Wrong Todays

Alright, look. I went into this really going by the tags on goodreads as:
‘Science Fiction'
FIction
Time Travel
SF Fantasy

I'm not saying that those tags are WRONG but shit man. This is ‘literature' about relationships and cultural perspectives.
So I'm really torn on how i feel about it. It's difficult when you go into a book thinking about what it SHOULD be and then reading the book and it not being that thing at all. Does that make the book bad? Not at all. If it deviates from the storyline now and again to provide in-depth backstory and history of the relationships of the pre-sent-day characters, does that make it boring? this book just ‘lingers'.

It all starts out with the main character ‘Rebecca' feeling that something's not right. people are right, things start to glitch. There's reports of people suffering from this psychosis disorder of suffering from too much technology that causing these feelings. Now this is the part that really sparked my curiosity and I wish that was explored more.
Then away we go through a number of digressions:

Rebecca's backstory of dating and ‘dancing' (a reference to a Dane Cook bit)
Philip's backstory
Their son ‘Sean'
The Causality Violation Device
Rebecca's Job
Rebecca's father the minister
The security guards in the lab
The lab assistant Alicia
the other lab assistant Carson
Rebecca's friend Katherine and Carson
Then we learn about ‘the tragedy'

I did enjoy the futuristic setting and the touches of society covered in the writing. There are autonomous vehicles. An overbearing ‘VR' president that could interrupt your dinner or even your phone calls, and a dating service that's engineered to have a lower success rate than what's possible to keep people coming back. and that can also monitor the modulations in the voice of the call center agents grading their ‘performance' while helping customers.

It's all very insightful sprinkled with those ‘Black Mirror' esque glimpses of how future technology can be used to deceive us.
It reads like a slow drama, there's a tiny bit of foreshadowing for interesting things on the horizon, but it's not until the final one-third of the book that things start picking up a little.

It was good, just definitely not what I had expected.