Rob Watson

I stopped reading other books to focus on "Push"!

Revisado: 07-01-20

Recently I decided I hadn't been reading enough books. My late mother, who was a library director, would've been appalled at how few books I'd been reading. So, I put out an alert to friends to ask for suggestions in the science fiction genre. I got many recommendations and started loading up my various audiobook apps.

I began reading three books at once, alternating between them. But "Push" just kept "pushing" (sorry) its way into the forefront. I couldn't focus on the others because I wanted to know what happened next in "Push".

I'd read a paperback of "Beat", the first book, to my son. We both really enjoyed it. I'd been left wanting to know what happened to Nik and his friends. Now I was picking up where I'd left off and I was not disappointed.

So, I stopped reading James S.A. Corey's "Cibola Burn" and William Gibson's "Neuromancer" and just kept going with Jared Garrett's book. The action drives the story in a way that keeps you going, wanting to figure out, with Nik, how this world he's figuring out has come to be and how he can defeat Prime Administrator Holland.

And, it's easy to insert yourself into the narrative and try to see the world through Nik's eyes. As I write this review, it's an interesting time to be reading a book about a global pandemic that, among other numerous manmade and natural disasters, created a universal dystopia where a madman rules over the few humans remaining. It makes you think about how similar our situation could be as a prequel to "Beat" and "Push", complete with all the technological, privacy, and freedom implications. Another reviewer said Garrett's series is "the apocalypse of Fitbits", and that's a pretty brilliant way to put it.

I really want to say more, but I know if I do I'll probably commit the sin of revealing spoilers. Just read "Beat" if you haven't read it yet, then move on to "Push" because, like Nik in his fateful coming of age event in the first book, you won't want to stop until you know how it ends.

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