Lost Cause

Didn't enjoy as much as Red Team Blues, it felt less like a story and more like a travel book for an imagined future version of socal. RTB obviously had something to say about crypto, and the author's perspective is clear, but it had enough of a thriller plot to drive the story on it's own merits. I got bored with this plot halfway through and felt like I had seen enough of the author's social ideas that I didn't feel bad just letting this one go. Not a bad book at all, I just have a ton of others to read.

Doctorow does a really good job of building out the world and the society that the main characters live in. This book still fell prey to the one complaint that I have with Doctorow's fictional writing, which is that all of the main characters (regardless of age/gender/etc) seem to speak with his voice. An example of this would be an adolescent teenage boy calling a teenage girl "a good egg". I have trouble seeing a young person actually talking like that.

However, even with that minor nagging complaint, this was a great book!