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I was hoping for a genre mashup - mystery meets sci fi - but it didn't have any of the elements I would expect from a mystery novel (suspects, intrigue, clues etc).

It throws you straight into an action movie peril-fest without pausing to make you care about the characters.

Overall, I was underwhelmed.

⭐⭐ / ⭐⭐⭐ 2 or 3 stars

Not sure I'm feeling this book so far. Don't get me wrong, it might get better (I'm 90 pages in), but so far it's stressing me out without piquing my curiosity. I prefer to be hooked / intrigued before the peril starts!

Pickles was lying on my back and I heard a flopping noise. I turned around and she was lying next to me with her paws in the air... for a moment I was worried but then I realised she'd just fallen asleep and dropped off 🙈😸

@vivastory #cloakanddaggerchristmas

Me yesterday: I'm far too busy to take on another reading challenge.

Me today: ^^ ... no harm in looking to see if I have any suitable material 🤔😅

Future England where everyone lives in an immersive world called “the Shine” and life is fully automated. So when a man ends up dead in the back of a trunk in a fully automated car factory, Private Detective Alma is called in to solve the who, why and how.

This book was recommended to me by someone who knows I like crime fiction. It is about a PI in the near future, when most work is done by robots, ‘sims‘ and myrmidions. Humans spend their lives in the ‘Shine‘ a virtual reality world; she is contracted to solve a murder when the contract is abruptly ended.
The was so much complicated sci-fi stuff as to how the communicated, none of it very clear and at times downright unbelievable. Gave up on it.