Review: Exciting/terrifying
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 5, 2014
I love these futuristic books in the vein of Michael Crichton.  It's gives a future that's just a hair's breath away from the one we're living now, warning about how our shiny new technology can be used against us.  As any new technology would be used by criminals or a rogue branch of our own military.  Good times.Emerson Doering has written an intense suspense novel(aren't they all?) that tells the story of a young girl who loses three of her limbs in a car accident.  Kristen calls her remaining hand her 'good' hand.  I can't even imagine how a 21 year-old, gorgeous young girl deals with such a tragedy, but the way Doering handles it feels spot-on.Kristen's brilliant, groundbreaking doctor, is Jackson, a man haunted by enough demons to star in a Saw movie all by himself.  Jackson chooses Kristen to 'interface' with a computer chip, which he places in her brain, to run her three new 'million dollar' limbs.Sounds like a simple plot, but there's a creepy dude showing Kristen pictures that freak her out, who then starts dating her single, some-what flaky mother.  Dylan has something on Kristen that makes her fear for her life, and if you've only got one good arm, I can't only imagine how just about anything might scare you.  Doering puts us squarely in Kristen's shoes which makes for a terrifying walk-about.Jackson can barely give a speech, because the last time he did, something tried to stab him to death.  Then there's the obnoxious reporter who asks Jackson questions about his work to which Jackson as no answer, making him wonder what exactly his ground-breaking work will be used for.Just when you think you have one question answered and you can breathe a little easier for the characters, Doering ups the ante and things get worse.  His characters are not beholden to the technology, they're real, flawed, and very relatable.  When I reached the end of the novel, I wanted more.  I didn't want to leave these wonderful characters, and I'm left wondering where their stories will go from here.  I hope there's a sequel because Interfaced was a fun and exciting ride.