Can the digital networks that record our footprints hold us steady when dementia threatens to push us off the path? This question has real stakes for data analyst Charlie Sanders. His best hope for a father succumbing to Alzheimer’s comes from assistive technology that Charlie helps design for a scrappy startup. Despite early successes, Charlie has growing doubts about the motives of each of his colleagues – the eccentric CEO in Seattle, the call center guru in India, and the Trump-loving Aussie transplant who keeps the books. His worries grow when the company takes on a clandestine client who occupies the Oval Office. Will Charlie keep his father and his country on track, or turn a whole generation into glitches?
*** Synopsis copied from amazon. ca
Genre: Adult | Fiction | Medical Fiction | Technology
3 out of 5 stars!
An interesting concept! The Synopsis really intrigued me.
Take a moment to really think what it would be like to have a technology such as this existing today.
Would it be a game changer?
The story starts off with the perspective of Charlie’s father, Barry. I was immediately pulled into the story! I enjoyed when the story was told from his perspective. Hearing his thoughts and reactions towards this technology his son helped create was stern yet humours at times. I also thoroughly enjoyed Charlie’s interactions with his father. It painted a realistic relationship when connecting with a loved one suffering from Dementia or Alzheimer’s. The emotional strains are prominent for sure but you will never stop loving and caring for that person and Charlie showed that passion for his father in the story. Working hard not to correct his father when he mixed Charlie up with his brother or trying hard not to feel the hit to the heart when his father would go on with glowing memories and stories about his brother. Charlie knew his father was suffering and nothing was intentional.
Unfortunately Barry’s direct perspective and relationship with Charlie was not highlighted enough in the story, in my personal opinion. I would have loved way more from him, but of course that was not the main feature.
I was worried the heavy political aspect behind the story was going to pull my attention away but surprisingly it didn’t. However; I did find that I did get lost in the switching from perspective to perspective and how they all came together in the end. I found with the choppy transitions the story was not as engaging, perhaps I could even say a bit dry and unfortunately lost my focus. That being said John did send me an e-copy for review and when I realised I was running out of time in order to get my review up for the target date, I turned to the audiobook. Perhaps the narration didn’t help in these moments. Again this is just my own opinion.
Over all the story was interesting. I would like to see more from John. If he was to write a whole novel on Barry and Charlie, I know I would be right there!
Thank you so much John for sending me a copy to read and review.
Publisher: Cosmic Egg Books
Release Date: July 31, 2020
And of course thank you all for reading
Your Tech Book Worm
-Nichole
You can check out my video review here:
𝑜𝒻𝒻𝒾𝒸𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝒸𝒶𝓃𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇𝓈. 𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝒶 𝓂𝓎𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇𝒾𝑜𝓊𝓈 𝓌𝑜𝓂𝒶𝓃, 𝒟𝑜𝓇𝑜𝓉𝒽𝓎, 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝒿𝑜𝒾𝓃𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝓇𝑒𝓌 𝒶𝒻𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒻𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒶𝒹𝓇𝒾𝒻𝓉 𝒾𝓃 𝒶𝓃 𝑜𝓅𝑒𝓃 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓁𝑒𝒷𝑜𝒶𝓉 𝒻𝓊𝓁𝓁 𝑜𝒻 𝒽𝓊𝓂𝒶𝓃 𝒷𝑜𝓃𝑒𝓈. 𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒸𝒶𝓃𝓃𝒾𝒷𝒶𝓁 𝒷𝓇𝒾𝒹𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝒶 𝓈𝑒𝒸𝓇𝑒𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝒶 𝒷𝑜𝑜𝓀 𝓌𝓇𝒾𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓃 𝒾𝓃 𝓈𝑒𝒸𝓇𝑒𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝒹𝑒, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓅𝑒𝓇𝒽𝒶𝓅𝓈 𝒾𝓃𝓀𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎 𝒻𝓁𝑒𝓈𝒽. 𝒲𝑜𝓇𝓈𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝒶𝓁𝓁, 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒’𝓈 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓅… 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝒷𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝓅𝒾𝒸𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝒻𝒻 𝓂𝑒𝓂𝒷𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝓇𝑒𝓌. 𝒪𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓋𝑜𝓎𝒶𝑔𝑒, 𝒾𝓉’𝓈 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓁𝑒 𝒷𝓁𝑜𝑜𝒹 𝓈𝓅𝒶𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓇𝑒𝒹 𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝑒𝒸𝓀. 𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓈𝒶𝓃𝒹𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓂𝒾𝓁𝑒𝓈 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓃𝑒𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝓁𝒶𝓃𝒹, 𝓊𝓃𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒸𝒽𝒶𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝒷𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝒶𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓅. 𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒’𝓈 𝓃𝑜 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝒸𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓃𝑜 𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓅 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝒾𝓃𝑔. 𝐼𝒻 𝒽𝑒 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝑒𝑒 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒽𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓁𝓎 𝒶𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃, 𝒲𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓈𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝑜𝓊𝓇𝒶𝑔𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝒻𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓈𝓉 𝓊𝓃𝓈𝓅𝑒𝒶𝓀𝒶𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝒽𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓇𝓈…
ᴄᴏʟᴅ ꜱᴛᴏʀᴀɢᴇ ᴅᴇᴇᴘ ʙᴇɴᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴀ ʟɪᴛᴛʟᴇ-ᴜꜱᴇᴅ ᴍɪʟɪᴛᴀʀʏ ʀᴇᴘᴏꜱɪᴛᴏʀʏ.
Cold Storage becomes chilling. I felt I couldn’t put the book down until I knew exactly what happened and if the trio was successful.
Now not only is the guts of the book fan-freaking-tastic but the physical book is glorious! Depending on the edition you get….(may I suggest the Hardcover special edition copy). The book reads just as a B movie. You get the play button, movie previews (which all need to be brought to book), movie posters. Then of course you have a soundtrack and end credits. Now if you go the route I suggested and get the hard cover special edition you also receive alternate endings and a few other little jazzy features.
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