(I received a free copy of this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.)

With Earth abandoned, humanity resides on Station, an industrialised asteroid run by the sentient corporations of the Pantheon. Under their leadership a war has been raging against the Totality - ex-Pantheon AIs gone rogue.
With the war over, Jack Forster and his sidekick Hugo Fist, a virtual puppet tied to Jack's mind and created to destroy the Totality, have returned home.
Labelled a traitor for surrendering to the Totality, all Jack wants is to clear his name but when he discovers two old friends have died under suspicious circumstances he also wants answers. Soon he and Fist are embroiled in a conspiracy that threatens not only their future but all of humanity's. But with Fist's software licence about to expire, taking Jack's life with it, can they bring down the real traitors before their time runs out?

*2.5 stars*

I went into this with high expectations - between the blurb and huge reviews on GR, I thought this was going to be right down my alley. Instead, I found it to be a hard slog and didn't connect with either the characters or the story they were trying to tell.

There was nothing technically wrong with this book - it just didn't grab me at any point.


Paul
ARH