Blog Tour & Review: The Preserve by Ariel S. Winter
Thank you Atria Books for this stop on the blog tour and review copy.
“[E]ntertaining... fun, twisty mystery.” —Publishers Weekly
“Winter does his worldbuilding gracefully… Robots may not be so different from humans in this fast-paced futuristic mystery.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Winter reveals his world slowly and subtly, forcing you to follow his trail of clues even as his detectives follow their own—unraveling two mysteries at once. In sparse, hardboiled prose, he invests real warmth into a human/robot friendship and finds time between shootouts to ask fascinating questions about the future of both species.” —Isaac Marion, New York Times bestselling author of Warm Bodies
My Review:
Robots? ✔ Murder? ✔ Sign me UP! Oh... this is a dystopian future where mankind has been almost completely depleted by a plague and complex AIs are now the ruling majority? Oh, and the robot government decided to say some of the preserves can be designated human areas where there will be no robot interference. Sound a bit familiar? 😉 Clever.
I'm a bit torn with this read. Concept is fantastic. It's moderately paced and we get a lot of story for 239 pages but I do wish it was a bit longer and incorporated more background to how the robots took over and maybe expanded to see if any humans lived among the robots and what that would look like. I'm super curious about it! More robots please! I'm a crime fiction kinda girl as y'all know... so for the police procedural part of this book, it was a fun murder mystery... I think I just wanted more sci-fi. 🤷
Basically, concept is amazing, loved the idea of the layers within this new society but needed more expansion and less surface level type world building. Am I mad I read it? Not at all. It has all the ingredients that would normally wet my appetite... it just didn't quite hit that sweet spot.
Definitely give this a go if it intrigues you and see what you think of it. I'm in the minority here so go look at other reviews before passing this up.
★★
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