Review: Could not connect--lacked emotion
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 25, 2013
No, I didn't read the whole book. Not even half. I was unable to connect to the main character, at all. Shallow and spoiled--and maybe the author needs her that way to show her personal growth, but there needs to be something deep down that makes me care. When her brother is discovered to be missing, no one reacts realistically, and all she cares about is solving the mystery, not worrying, not feeling. She was more concerned with how her boyfriend was acting than the fact that her brother was missing.Also, the way the technology was described, it felt as though the author was trying to draw attention to it, rather than the story itself. That would have been fine before the moment when her brother disappears, as a way to set up the story world, but it continues after.Anyway, I really did give this book a fair chance, trying multiple times to get farther into the story, but I just couldn't.That said, I see potential in the writing. The voice was decent and the idea pretty original.