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Lock In
by John Scalzi
I listed to the audiobook that is narrated by Wil Wheaton. It is a perfect combination.
Lock In is a science fiction detective novel. A flu like virus became an epidemic that caused some individuals to become locked in. There bodies are incapacitated, but their minds are not. To help these individuals to live more normal lives robotic bodies are created that the individual can link to and use to navigate around the physical world.
The story is very nuanced, and left me thinking about it since I finished reading it. The characters are dynamic, and there is a very well developed mystery throughout also. The narration was also excellent and on point.
There was one point that I did not enjoy about the book. There was an overabundance of dialogue tags used through the book. It seemed to be after almost everyone talked, even though it was extremely easy to follow along with who was saying what. Constantly hearing "he said," "she exclaimed," "Vann exclaimed," etc was very jarring. I think this was probably worse in the audiobook then if I would have read it in print. I can glaze over the words in a way you cannot do in the audio. I looked forward to the segments were there was no dialogue, so that I could enjoy the writing and narration.
Lock In is a science fiction detective novel. A flu like virus became an epidemic that caused some individuals to become locked in. There bodies are incapacitated, but their minds are not. To help these individuals to live more normal lives robotic bodies are created that the individual can link to and use to navigate around the physical world.
The story is very nuanced, and left me thinking about it since I finished reading it. The characters are dynamic, and there is a very well developed mystery throughout also. The narration was also excellent and on point.
There was one point that I did not enjoy about the book. There was an overabundance of dialogue tags used through the book. It seemed to be after almost everyone talked, even though it was extremely easy to follow along with who was saying what. Constantly hearing "he said," "she exclaimed," "Vann exclaimed," etc was very jarring. I think this was probably worse in the audiobook then if I would have read it in print. I can glaze over the words in a way you cannot do in the audio. I looked forward to the segments were there was no dialogue, so that I could enjoy the writing and narration.