1/5 The other side of life. This was recommended to me and I kept finding it on sites for cyberpunk quotes, some of which are great. I did not like it at all though:

I really wanted to like this book and the writing itself isn't bad. But at 60 pages I had to stop reading. The characters aren't believable at all.

The best I can describe it is that this is twilight, except there's even less reason for one of the main protagonists of the story to act as she does. She falls for Nin immediately, while just beforehand self proclaims herself a thief- but her and her friend trust and go with Nin right away. No problem barely any hint of distrust. It's bizarre.

There's numerous references to Tolkien elves, kryptonite and other really weird things. They both fall for each other after 30 minutes in, she seems like she's not even a protagonist in the story.

I get that this is young adult but it's even more juvenile than is typical of the genre. There also doesn't appear to be a clear understand of the genre by the time I stopped reading. Casually floating in Nin's view on society and technology doesn't make the story high tech and low life, both staples of the genre. In fact there's so many pop culture references in it, the author is actively working against creating a cyberpunk work.

There WERE some great quotes that fall into the cyberpunk genre but they are only Nins thoughts, they're never actually realized in the story at all, up until the point I got up to, anyways.

Neat concept, some better dialogue and some more research into the genre are needed though--if it's actually supposed to have cyberpunk elements as it states.