A tour de force in dystopian fiction set in a society where people connect to the internet via feeds implanted in their brains.
Titus doesn't think much of the moon. But then Titus doesn't think much period. He's got his "feed" - an internet implant linked directly into his brain - to do his thinking for him. It tells him where to party or get the hottest bargains and how to accessorize the mysterious lesions everyone's been getting lately. But then Titus meets Violet, a girl who cares what's happening to the world and challenges everything Titus and his friends hold dear. A girl who decides to fight the feed...
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[We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck]***
(Simon & Schuster Children's UK, 18 October 2018, 304 pages, ebook, A Year of @EpicReads 2019, a book about a YA revolution, borrowed from @GlasgowLib via @OverDriveLibs)
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I love dystopian fiction; I have a real soft spot for it and the more believable and unsettling the better. I completely believed the world created in Feed as much as it horrified me. The idea of having an implant wired into my brain for the internet makes me feel queasy. That takes things a bit extreme as far as I'm concerned. I loved Violet; she's a great character and really tugged at my heartstrings. What happens to her because she got her Feed late is heart-breaking. The bigger question I had was, why did someone implant a Feed in her knowing it could malfunction and deteriorate? Feed is an incredible, gut-wrenching book.
