I did like this book, it reminded me very much of the first matrix movie, how Neo learned to fight and all the skills he needed to bend the matrix, but in here things happened while in the real world. This is a dystopia that takes place in an imaginary country, all people from age of 6 receive mandatory brain drives that teach them everything that they need to know… but imagine if a emp takes over and they lose this technology they wont even know how to read, all memories associated with things related with the uploads into their memory drive go away like they were never there…

This kind of technology makes the poor ever poorer and the rich richer… yeah talk about unfairness of treatment… I did like the story but I think the ending felt rushed and also that the author tried to make john unbeatable, if you want to know what I mean just read on, its not bad its just, for me it was a bit too good to be true, but anyway, try it, it has many likeable characters, really terrible ones (but as in evil), and most than half of the book is a thriller, everything happens quite fast.

Thank you NetGalley and IBPA for the free ARC and this is my honest opinion.

I find the premise interesting, but somewhere in the middle I got bored. I still finished it though. There were a lot of science, which I think science nerds may find intriguing. It was not the best but still not the worst. And it has a cliffhanger too.

3.5 stars.

Thank you to Netgalley for the arc!