Book: Glitch by Heather Anastasiu

Published by St. Martin’s Griffin

Purchased for my Nook (371 pages)

Genre: YA: Dystopic

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Goodreads Summary: In the Community, there is no more pain or war. Implanted computer chips have wiped humanity clean of destructive emotions, and thoughts are replaced by a feed from the Link network.

When Zoe starts to malfunction (or “glitch”), she suddenly begins having her own thoughts, feelings, and identity. Any anomalies must be immediately reported and repaired, but Zoe has a secret so dark it will mean certain deactivation if she is caught: her glitches have given her uncontrollable telekinetic powers.

As Zoe struggles to control her abilities and stay hidden, she meets other glitchers including Max, who can disguise his appearance, and Adrien, who has visions of the future. Together, this growing band of glitchers must find a way to free themselves from the controlling hands of the Community before they’re caught and deactivated, or worse. In Heather Anastasiu’s action-packed debut, Glitch begins an exciting new young adult trilogy.

I was really intrigued by Glitch.  The idea of a computer chip that makes you not feel anything and essentially puts you on auto-pilot is a really interesting idea, and is something I could see as a possibility sometime in the future.

But something about Glitch didn’t work for me.  I didn’t care for the relationships, the characters weren’t particularly interesting, and it felt like things were thrown in just to be there.

I thought Zoe was just okay, and I get her desire to turn herself in…but I also get why she didn’t.  I totally get wanting to help others like her, but in a society where people are just cogs in a machine, but can get reported for showing anomalous behavior, it’s risky.

That could have been really interesting, but it turned out to be more boring than I expected.

The one character I couldn’t stand was Max.  The way he just keep pushing Zoe was really annoying and I wanted to punch him in the face because he was so annoying.  Adrien was okay, and I kind of liked him.  Until the end, and now I’m just not sure about him.  Although I will say that he’s a lot more likeable than Max, which isn’t saying a lot.

You do get a pretty good idea of why the Community is set up the way it is.  But for some reason, it didn’t feel like it was very developed.  And not just world-building.  But it felt like the characters were kind of not very developed either.

Glitch gets 2 out of 5.  Interesting idea, but it was just okay.