Attempting to get to more of my cyberpunk library, I finally got this one. It’s a solid, feeling fairly commercial effort. Meaning it has the pacing and technophobia elements. The character work is fine, the plot quite fun, and the twist, while predictable, ultimately satisfying.

What drew me to it is the augmented reality aspects. I bet I’d have liked this even more years ago, since I’m very into AR, but more so mixed reality. AR feels, I don’t know, old tech, somehow, already. However, this was a solid effort. Though, I would like to see less technophobic efforts in modern cyberpunk works, it’s understandably hard to deliver, when the technology in the subgenre is generally repurposed to fight back against “the system”—making it hard to be more nuanced, and probably uncalled for in a commercial effort. I doubt an editor would care.