I requested this one because it might be an upcoming title I would like to review on my Youtube Channel. However, after reading the first several chapters I have determined that this book does not suit my tastes. So I decided to DNF this one.

Partition enters you into a new world; a YOUtopia in which you have all day to participate in whatever your heart desires, and instead of sleeping, an organic AI inside your brain, your Night, takes care of work, sleep, health, and any other “burdens” that humans currently experience. Eric Noble and his Night soon realize through different experiences that this promise of a perfect life is far from the truth, and the real world is much messier than they ever knew.

Wow! This book was so fast-paced and engaging. The alternating perspectives were so well-done, and the two storylines we’ve together in a way that left me constantly wanting more. I do feel like it was hard to listen to so much at once, because there was a constant intake of new events and information, and the story truly did not slow down at all. I think this amount of action is very appealing to some readers, but it is not my preferred speed. That being said, it was a really fun experience and the plot was exciting and complex.

The themes in this book were very well-executed, and I wasn’t expecting such heavy topics of autonomy and identity to be so thoroughly explored through these characters’ perspectives.

The ending of this book left lots of room for the story to be continued in the later books of the series, and I highly recommend this book to any fans of technology-based science-fiction.

I want to hold this book in my hands, because it is just massive. I can't imagine how long it took to create this tome! This is a sci-fi book that kind of looks at the ethics or morality of organic A.I. and genetic modifications. All while the characters are trying to understand it themselves and fight a massive corporation. We have two main POVs Night and Day. Eric is both night and day in body, but not in mind. Callosum is the company that hosts the organic A.I. and the idea is the "normal" mind will control your body for the daytime to live your best life and the night will switch over to do chores and work or whatever you want it to do. You are functioning 24 hours a day without sleep because you are essentially 2 beings. Then one day Eric goes to a day club and does a cool new drug called Glitch. Someone dies and the night is left to investigate this murder. The night is a police officer while the day is an influencer. So basically all hell breaks loose and both day and night are researching what happened on both sides of the spectrum.

First of all the cover is beautiful and the concept of the book sounded amazing!

Welcome to the new YOUtopia. So the planet is dying, and a megacorp controls everything. At least you don’t have to work another day in your life, not when an Organic AI controls your body every night

I honestly thought that I’m going to love this book, but I unfortunately didn’t enjoyed my time reading it that much that I would wanted to, at least not the second part of the book. In the beginning I was so invested in the story I wanted to find out what’s going to happen with the characters where the story is going but this book was way too long! Don’t get me wrong I love long books but this should have been much shorter, the story was drawn out it wasn’t moving that fast that I would wanted to. And the moment I lost my interest I lost track of the story, I was so confused by the second half of the book it didn’t mattered how close attention did I payed.

This book had so much potential and I’m so sad that I didn’t loved it.

Thank you to @netgalley for providing me an AudioARC of this title in exchange for my honest review.

Publication Date: September 5, 2023

Partition built a world that was believable, deep and detailed. Right from the start you begin having remorse for the characters for the decisions they had to make and the lives they are stuck with. If you’re someone who has sympathy for machines like me, this remorse is strong at times. There is also fun tech explanations, action scenes and some gore to keep you hooked.

I will be very excited to continue the adventure into this world if 'Partition' turns into a series. If you enjoy sci-fi, dystopian futures, AI stories or adventures I definitely recommend this book.

I also must mention the narrator, as William DeMeritt did an amazing job bringing this story to life. He was a great match to the character range.

“Days die. Nights are deleted.”

This is a read that will stay with me long after I finished it. The grimdark sci-fi themes were done well and with purpose. Kane has created a world not too distant from our own today with a dystopian spin. Readers who are not used to the sci-fi genre may find the navigation of tech-jargon as a learning curve, but I will urge that it is much like any other practice, it gets easier the more you do it. The plot is complex with layers to work through and when it all clicks it is like a neuron firing, with an exuberant “ahh-ha!”

Initially I wagered I was reading a typical murder-mystery/sci-fi story, and it evolved into a scope far greater and more profound. I am a sci-fi fanatic through and through and love when a story unapologetically takes a plunge into what-ifs of the human experience, and what at the core of it all it means ‘to be human’.

Kane has a sharp wit to their prose and catches you with expertly timed one liners that make you laugh and others that make you go, ‘whoa’. Loved the pop-culture references and the diversity of characters within.

The narrator, William DeMeritt, added a lot of life to the dialogue and prose allowing for the listener to know when there was a different person talking and when a POV changed. I enjoyed their performance very much. (I read alongside the audiobook and it really immersed me into YOUtopia). This is a book with many adult themes and content, personally I felt it was a pleasure to read. 

Much gratitude to NetGalley and Literature and Lattes Publishing for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you for this book in exchange for my honest review. This read like a textbook for me. Therefore, it was hard for me to connect with the story.

This book started out great. Lots of intrigue, action, drama, & suspense. This futuristic world was thoughtfully created. A service that allows users to have a sort of "autopilot" mode to get the mundane things out of the way and consciously "living" during their free time. Amazing. But this is where it falls flat. It lacks an interesting story after the world/setting is built. This setting could be HUGE... but it needs a different story to go with it. I can definitely see this being picked up by a network for TV or a book series. Huge potential. Keep this going. PLEASE!

This was such an interesting book. What a great concept! I really enjoyed listening to it and thought the narrator did a great job. Easy to listen to and spoke clearly. I also enjoyed the way the narrator captured all the character voices so we could tell immediately that a different character was speaking.

There are people who have opted to get this AI installed in them, called Partition. This basically gives the person control of their own body during waking hours, so they are Day. The AI is Night. For instance, the change could happen at 8pm and last until 8am. The Night would do whatever productive things needed to be done, like working out, cleaning, running errands, and going to whatever job that person has. The Day, or the human, would take back over at 8am and be able to enjoy their life in perpetual retirement basically because the Night already did all the work that a normal person would need to do. Super cool concept!

The story itself is about a detective whose Night is beginning to see that Nights are basically slaves to Days. This is a murder mystery, AI gaining consciousness, future technology, kind of book.

At first I didn’t know really what was going on, people have two sides, their Day and their Night, one has all the fun while the other work and provides for the other, in the beginning of the book we have one Night that attacked his “day” body and put his hand on a meat grinder, now, in this piece of information, all of our story starts developing, and I must tell you, this author tells us a very engrossing story, at first we are led to believe that Nights are a kind of partition of the brain of the “real person” and during the story we are showed the different takes that “nights” really have, I swear, for most of the characters that we learn through the story, I kind of like more the “nights” they for me reminded me of a movie that I’ve watched when I was in high school, “Pleasantville” the nights, are kind of the characters of the show where the brother and sister were sent into, and during the book they gradually learn all colours and the reality they live in.

I got to listen to the audiobook and read to the ebook at the same time, so I feel really privileged, the person reading, really put an effort in trying to portrait different characters and that for me was really worth my time, I really got engrossed in the story, and it is a story that will live with me for some time.

Of course, I wont spoil the story, nor tell you what changed it for me, but I really recommend this book, it is different in how the characters grow aware of what is really around them, and what is to live, yeah it is a story that will make you think.

Thank you NetGalley and Literature and Lattes for the free AAC and this is my honest opinion.

Strong narration, clear and easy to listen to. Speed is great for those who enjoy audiobooks at 1x but can also be easily sped up for those who want to listen quicker. Story is enjoyable, gritty and is a fast paced thriller with a strong theme of technology.

This was a well written and researched book. I loved the storyline. I was super excited to read it however as I got further in there was alot of scientific, technical verbiage that I found more difficult to follow and less entertaining. I'm still giving it 4 stars because it's a great storyline.