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While reading this book I felt adrift in so many ways. Trying to understand the death of a teen from the perspective of several different people who care about him is bound to be an emotional experience Family and friends grapple with the question: Suicide or accident? and the book works its way to an answer, but the journey to reach a conclusion is unsettling to say the least. The narrative is divided into sections each told by someone close to Alex. The reader is plunged into the aftermath of Alex’s death with little preparation and must tread water as you figure out what is happening. Two factors add to the confusion � Alex’s emotional issues which he expresses ad infinitum and long past the point of interesting me. And the futuristic concept of the “upload,� a digital entity composed of the sense memories of a human tether.. That was key to the story but only made clear as the narrative reached its weird conclusion.
I can’t decide if I was not clever enough to follow all the twists, or the book needed tightening to make the plot easier to follow. What I do know for sure is that the characters did not engage me enough to give me a satisfying reading experience.