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The Future Is Yours
by Dan Frey
The Future is Yours
By. Dan Fey
P. 352
Format: e-arc
Rating: ****
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I received The Future is Yours from @Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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The Future is Yours is written in an alternate narrative style. It is a collection of text messages, emails, and transcripts of congressional hearings. You learn exclusively about the characters from their written text. Given the nature of the book, this is apt.
What would happen if you had a machine that could see the internet one year in the future? On it’s surface it sounds great. You would know if you and the person you are crushing on will get together. You can see your vacation pics. You could have foreseen Covid coming and stocked up on a house in rural America before they became a hot commodity.
Then you start to think about the ramifications of what would actually happen if everyone was given access to this technology. That is the plot of The Future is Yours.
While the story focus a lot on the tech, the actual story is about the people. Ben is a business person through and through. He is trying to break through as an African American male who lost both his parents - his mom to cancer and his dad who left. He also has ADHD. I’m not going to lie, I started to really despise Ben. I questioned what Fey was doing with the character. I held out hope though that it was all leading somewhere. It did.
Adhi is an Indian American tech genius. He also is neurodiverse with mental health concerns that are not really brought in until later in the book. Adhi’s mental health is not the main focus of the book, although it does get tangled into the plot - but only in the way that it is a character focused book and his mental health is part of who he is. Given the book as a whole I think it really works. Also more mental health rep, especially when it shows the individual as a person and not a disorder, is so important.
If you like science fiction that will leave you thinking and keep you wondering until the end, then you will enjoy The Future is Yours. Be forewarned that there is mention of suicide multiple times in the book. Also, the female characters are more a means to an end than actual flushed out characters. I enjoyed Ben’s wife but I can’t even remember her name - so yeah.
By. Dan Fey
P. 352
Format: e-arc
Rating: ****
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I received The Future is Yours from @Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
***********************
The Future is Yours is written in an alternate narrative style. It is a collection of text messages, emails, and transcripts of congressional hearings. You learn exclusively about the characters from their written text. Given the nature of the book, this is apt.
What would happen if you had a machine that could see the internet one year in the future? On it’s surface it sounds great. You would know if you and the person you are crushing on will get together. You can see your vacation pics. You could have foreseen Covid coming and stocked up on a house in rural America before they became a hot commodity.
Then you start to think about the ramifications of what would actually happen if everyone was given access to this technology. That is the plot of The Future is Yours.
While the story focus a lot on the tech, the actual story is about the people. Ben is a business person through and through. He is trying to break through as an African American male who lost both his parents - his mom to cancer and his dad who left. He also has ADHD. I’m not going to lie, I started to really despise Ben. I questioned what Fey was doing with the character. I held out hope though that it was all leading somewhere. It did.
Adhi is an Indian American tech genius. He also is neurodiverse with mental health concerns that are not really brought in until later in the book. Adhi’s mental health is not the main focus of the book, although it does get tangled into the plot - but only in the way that it is a character focused book and his mental health is part of who he is. Given the book as a whole I think it really works. Also more mental health rep, especially when it shows the individual as a person and not a disorder, is so important.
If you like science fiction that will leave you thinking and keep you wondering until the end, then you will enjoy The Future is Yours. Be forewarned that there is mention of suicide multiple times in the book. Also, the female characters are more a means to an end than actual flushed out characters. I enjoyed Ben’s wife but I can’t even remember her name - so yeah.