Review: Suspending Belief
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 25, 2012
It's taken me some time to digest (ouch, that pun wasn't intended but I decided to leave it)... my feelings and thoughts about the story.First, I find the premise repugnant. I don't want to believe that an entire society would suspend its humanity... but that happens frequently, doesn't it?For a first time fiction piece, I thought the author did well. She kept my interest and there were some fascinating aspects to the story. I think it would have been more believable if this would have happened several generations into "the herd" mentality. The time difference would have provided for a generation of people to grow up with the "acceptability" of the concept of a human herd.As long as you suspend belief about how and why this could happen the story runs smoothly. After all, we do suspend belief while reading much of the time.