Mindwalker
Ratings13
Average rating3.9
Feels like this was written with the goal to be adapted into a movie. The premise is cool - a young woman's job is to infiltrate the minds of her company's field agents to help them escape desperate situations, using advanced tech so she can see floor plans and assess risk ratios while controlling their bodies. Something goes wrong on a mission that forces her to flee. She meets a guy who, it turns out, is trying to uncover a conspiracy and bring the woman's company down. All that is good: the plot is exciting, the writing is smooth, and the ideas are interesting.
The biggest surprise (and let-down, for me as an adult man) was the YA enemies-to-lovers romance trope, which is pretty thick throughout the book. Wasn't a dealbreaker and wasn't salacious, just kinda boring/tired. But I know people like that trope, so if you're into sci-fi/tech and romance, this might hit your sweet spot.
Side-note: the repeated use of the phrase Christ-that-was is an obvious attempt by the author to create a "calling card"/in-joke for superfans of the series that made me cringe every time I read it.
Feels like this was written with the goal to be adapted into a movie. The premise is cool - a young woman's job is to infiltrate the minds of her company's field agents to help them escape desperate situations, using advanced tech so she can see floor plans and assess risk ratios while controlling their bodies. Something goes wrong on a mission that forces her to flee. She meets a guy who, it turns out, is trying to uncover a conspiracy and bring the woman's company down. All that is good: the plot is exciting, the writing is smooth, and the ideas are interesting.
The biggest surprise (and let-down, for me as an adult man) was the YA enemies-to-lovers romance trope, which is pretty thick throughout the book. Wasn't a dealbreaker and wasn't salacious, just kinda boring/tired. But I know people like that trope, so if you're into sci-fi/tech and romance, this might hit your sweet spot.
Side-note: the repeated use of the phrase Christ-that-was is an obvious attempt by the author to create a "calling card"/in-joke for superfans of the series that made me cringe every time I read it.