Review: I liked this book.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 19, 2013
I'm in the habit of testing cheap and free 'first in a series' books to see whether I like them enough to go forward. This book is in the 'I like it but am not going to rush into the next book' and 'will consider again later' categories.One of the things that kept popping into my mind was 'Don't these people know they should not fiddle with a timeline because of the grandfather paradox?'. And the 'kill one to let another live' conundrum? And what, or who, became God to make these decisions? What short lived narrative time-line of a survivor excludes the possibility of a utopia arising from the ashes of a pandemic such as this? Is this not evolution and survival of the fittest providing it's own correction? Why does the percentage of people who died rate interference? Why not one person - or two - or one million or one billion? Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Maybe the AI, or whoever programmed it, is flawed and that's all there is to it.So, suffice it to say, I found the premise at odds with my understanding of evolution even though it was a good and intriguing read.PS In my world, God and Evolution are not mutually exclusive.