Review: Gritty Sci-fi, but Orwellian extreme
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 18, 2011
I did read the entire book, but it was rough going for the last 1/3 or so.  The story is gritty, and quite well described.  But the grit of the future in a 1984 Orwellian type of society just felt too much like Nazi Germany or Communist Russia described in a future setting.  Lots of spying on each other, lots of political correctness and retraining.  But the book seemed to lack any hope or view of society being able to correct the wrongs.  It was just a downward spiral of human dispair and misery, not my type of future.