Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Released: 1st of September 2022
Eighteen-year-old Sil Sarrah is determined to die a legend. In the ten years she's been rescuing imperilled field agents for the Syntex Corporation—by commandeering their minds from afar and leading them to safety—Sil hasn't lost a single life. And she's not about to start now.
She's got twelve months left on the clock before the supercomputer grafted to her brain kills her, and she's hell-bent on using that time to cement her legacy. Sil's going to be the only Mindwalker to ever pitch a perfect game—even despite the debilitating glitches she's experiencing. But when a critical mission goes south, Sil is forced to flee the very company she once called home.
Desperate to prove she's no traitor, Sil infiltrates the Analog Army, an activist faction working to bring Syntex down. Her plan is to win back her employer's trust by destroying the group from within. Instead, she and the Army's reckless leader, Ryder, uncover a horrifying truth that threatens to undo all the good Sil's ever done.
With her tech rapidly degrading and her new ally keeping dangerous secrets of his own, Sil must find a way to stop Syntex in order to save her friends, her reputation—and maybe even herself.
What I Have to Say
I had a very good time reading this book. Sil was an amazing character with great humour and sarcasm. The narrator was spot on as well really capturing Sil's voice and bringing life to the piece. I think I would have enjoyed it either way, but I especially enjoyed it as an audiobook.
The world was well built, if slightly depressing. It's sort of post- post-apocalypse. The apocalypse has happened, people survived and the world has been rebuilt. I found it good that it was an apocalypse by bombing the shit out of each other, rather than climate change because if I'm honest, books about climate change have started to scare me.
The mindwalking was really interesting. It really makes you think about consent and the idea that someone could literally take control of your body. Some of the scenes made me really uncomfortable and definitely showed the issues around that sort of thing.
All in all, this was a really good sci fi book.
My thanks go to Negalley and Hodder and Stoughton for providing me with this copy for review.
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