Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Review of Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Thomas Sweterlitsch

This book takes place in a futuristic United States where people have implants in their heads that keep them always plugged into a network that gives them VR feed back where ever they go or even think. It's not a nice place to live. The protagonist, Dominic, is an investigator of cold cases. He can't forget about his wife who was killed 10 years earlier in a blast that destroyed Pittsburgh. He uses drugs to ease the pain of her memory. He is obsessed with one case of a murdered woman he is investigating. After he loses his job, Dominic is hired by a wealthy man who asks him to find out what happened to his daughter whose images have disappeared from the Archive. The link between this daughter and the murdered woman slowly unfolds over the course of the story. I found this book a bit difficult to read because of some of the gruesome scenes depicted, but I found it worthwhile at the end.