I didn't like this. It was messy but not in a fun way. I don't know if I'm able to articulate why exactly it was bad, but I'll try. It's written in 3rd person omniscient? Felt like 3rd person limited, but we hopped into other characters' heads when convenient. The writing was tedious. We got paragraphs full of minute detail of what someone is up to while the actions could've been summed up in 1-2 sentences. This goes hand in hand with my next issue with this book; the countless short sentences.
i.e. MC planned to go to the university. He couldn't relax however. So he walked around for a while. Then he finally decided to go to a café. So he walked turned left to walk there. The road was busy so he had to wait to cross.

Why?! "He was restless and finally settled on going to a café instead of meandering around campus for hours.", would've sufficed.

Interesting story set in the near future where they are transplanting every organ including the brain in those who develop Alzheimer’s…but not getting great results… a scientist decides to try the a new drug on himself to get human results of preventing Alzheimer’s develop,e t.

thank you to the publisher and netgalley for this copy! this was such an interesting story and I couldn't put it down. It was a ride from beginning to end. The concept was inventive and I felt like the story didn't follow typical storylines that deal with similar things. I would absolutely read this author again.

I wasn’t going to review this book at first because I DNF’d it but I decided that I wanted to share some of my thoughts.

Thanks to the publishers and Netgalley for giving me a copy to review.

So the main reason I didn’t like this book was the main character who in my opinion isn’t likeable in anyway, he is rude, arrogant and talks about women in a way that was unpleasant to read and on top of that story took so long to really get going. Had a really cool premise but I just couldn’t get through it.

The description of this book sounded very sci fi mystery. But it just turned out to be completely opposite of what I expected. I don’t think I was the correct person to read this particular book. If you like science I think this book would be great read for you. This was a DNF for me.

The premise seemed interesting but was not my cup of tea. I don’t think I was the target audience for this particular book. If you like biology, this might be for you, but it was not for me unfortunately.

I loved this read. It was super fast paced, but also descriptive enough that you didn’t feel overwhelmed. Overall awesome reading experience. Would recommend to those who enjoy the works of Andy Weir. I felt as if there was a similar feel.

Characters had no personality and there was a lot of mindless description. It was hard to get into the plot.

This book was weird but good which was exactly what I was looking for. The concepts and world building was amazing overall I loved it. Except for the main character who was just annoying and confusing also kinda stupid.

I found really interesting the premise that in the not so long future more and more chances of organs being regrown to extend peoples lives might become quite a common thing (probably not for those with lower incomes, though), but what about brains? Will they sometime be reproduced with such accuracy so as not to affect the main essence of the self? So far that hasn't occurred and people who have undergone brain regeneration end up like faulty version of the original.

Will is a lab expert, and as such he'd love to make sure that his contributions don't go unacknowledged, even if such contributions might lead to some undesired (if not unfortunate) results. He's been working on a brill pill to enhance brains and on some sort of vaccine to alter human beings. The problem with Will is that he's conflicted with what's ethical and what's not. Being a man of science ethics shouldn't really be a problem, should it? Will he be able to overcome his fears and seamlessly introduce the progress of his research to the world. As usual, there's only one way to find out.

Although I enjoyed the reading, I fell at times that almost everything was seen from Will's perspective and there really wasn't much interaction of the other appearing characters. I guess that would have made the story even more interesting.

In any case, the topic of the story really draw my interest and Akemi's writing style is narrative and descriptive.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advance copy of this book via NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This book explores the issue “just because you can doesn’t mean you should” through the eyes, and internal monologue, of a deeply flawed character who, nevertheless, has the scientific knowledge to change the lives of thousands of people.

The core idea is interesting - of a world in which lives can be changed by brain regeneration, but many of the recipients are never quite the same. And the internal struggles of someone who can influence the science or act covertly to subvert it, should have been interesting and engaging.

Unfortunately for me, the balance of narrative concentrated far too much on the the internal monologue of the main character, Will. I would have preferred more depth in some of the other characters, and a slightly faster pace in the plot. There are plot elements that should have had excitement, suspense, or jeopardy, but that fell too flat for my liking. Many of these were told through the experience of Will, who was often simply finding ways to procrastinate, avoid issues, or agonise over which course of action to take.

A fascinating premise and an interesting story, though.

Thank you #NetGalley and She Writes Press for the free review copy of #TheBrillPill in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

Sadly this is a DNF for me. The first few chapters are basically huge paragraphs of information-dumping, the characters don’t speak like humans, and the protagonist is just awful. Tell, don’t show seems to be the rule.

I did like the main plot idea, but couldn’t stick the writing (which does need another pass with an editor).

A real shame, as this sounded so promising.