Look, all praise to the young writer, she sounds like an intelligent, voracious reader, but honestly, self-publishing doesn't make everyone an author. This is a weak story that should have been released on Wattpad, not touted for sale on Amazon - even at £1.50! I'm actually angry that I fell for the blurb and wasted time and that small amount of money to read this 'debut'. The premise is The Matrix with a dash of Greta Thunberg thrown in to make the plot topical, and the dialogue is straight out of a bad B-movie, or a Scooby Doo episode (of the 'You think you can defeat me, puny mortal!' variety). The characters haven't left the sketch stage, all ridiculous names and dyed hair, and the weird relationship between 'Geo' and Scott is completely forced - they meet each other through the antihero of the piece to defeat the big bad computer, and he immediately starts throwing a tantrum because 'you betrayed my trust, waaah'. Oh stop.

We've all written stories as teenagers that are influenced by books or films and aren't very good - examples of mine are still on a certain fan fiction site - but I would never have presumed to publish my work. And if the plot and characters of this story appeal to any other SF readers, read William Gibson instead - his novels don't make a lot of sense either, but at least they're proficiently written. ( )