Review: Inconsistencies
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 30, 2012
First of all, the idea for Suspense is certainly in  interesting one, but the world building is a bit inconsistent.  In a world where everyone's needs are met there are no jobs - this is stated explicitly several times.  Yet we find people doing labor like working as wait staff in a restaurant.  Am I to believe there are people who would do this for pure pleasure for no compensation?  Goods distribution?  The needs of 10 billion people being met by only 12 machines and no work force? Hmm, this needs to be explained more clearly in the book itself.The writing is decent, but the female characters read like they were written by a man.  Major relationship-shifting events occur and then aren't hashed out between the characters and are mostly ignored.  This just isn't emotionally authentic.***Spoiler Ahead***Gratuitous sex scene where a female character goes into a male body and has intercourse with her best female friend, making her pregnant.  Ugh.  Doesn't add to the plot, distasteful, and illogical.  The pregnant character can tell she's conceived from her biochemistry - couldn't she have known she was ovulating by her biochemistry as well?***End of Spoiler***All that being said, the text is clear and pretty easy to read - no blazing spelling/grammatical errors.  Still, I got pretty fed up after the spoiler event mentioned above (I did finish the book though to see if the author would ever have those characters hash things out).  I wouldn't have invested my time if I'd known about it before hand, hence my inclusion of it in this review (I don't normally include spoilers at all).