Freedom ~ Danial Suarez

Funk Rating: 6.5 out of 10

I was disappointed w/ the sequel to Daemon. I probably still harbor some animosity to both the author and the publishing house for the train wreck of just breaking the book in two and then selling them a year apart. Absolutely stupid and made it hard to get back into this book (imagine reading a book halfway, setting it down for a year, then trying to pick it up again -- that's pretty hard to do).

But even setting that aside, this just got so preachy and far-fetched in the plot setup that even all the really cool technology elements couldn't overcome a weak storyline. I really enjoyed the first one because it was so different and provocative. But Suarez couldn't deliver the goods across the full book. The violence against innocent civilians alone made the book untenable to me. And the way in which highly complex and interdependent events unfold but are totally predictable based on the "game" analogy just hit levels of absurdity near the end.

I wish I could be more positive, but it just fell well short of a good read...

Comments

[Al Jigen Billings]

It wasn't a book broken in two. He spoke at the Long Now Foundation (http://longnow.org/seminars/02008/aug/08/daemon-bot-mediated-reality/) after Daemon was self-published. At that time, it was just about to be republished his current publishing house. Freedom wasn't even finished at *that* point and that was a year or more after he had published Daemon. They were always two separate books.