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breve relato que apenas llega a laspáginas fue escrito en atención menos dehoras.
Lo cierto es que en cuanto lo vi se ganó inmediatamente un puesto en mi lista de lecturas inminentes por culpa de su llamativo argumento y mi obsesiva predilección por todo aquello que esté relacionado en la más mínima medida con el ojo humano.
Por si fuera poco, Chris Brosnahan nos propone aventurarnos en un futuro donde la tecnología permite convertir nuestro sentido de la vista en un auténtico crisol de información donde convergen noticias, anuncios publicitarios, capacidad para controlar el entorno y una larga serie de prodigios que se exponen de forma breve pero significativa a lo largo de sus páginas.
John Macfarlane es el protagonista de esta trepidante historia, un brillante optometrista que se encarga de implantar en sus pacientes los dispositivos necesarios para disfrutar de esta inquietante realidad aumentada.
Sin embargo, la carrera de John se verá truncada cuando una serie de asesinatos en los que las víctimas han sido despojados de sus globos oculares salpiquen la meteórica reputación del científico.
A partir de ese momento, POV se convierte en un apasionante thriller tecnológico repleto de posibilidades, en el que nada es lo que parece y donde cada capítulo aguarda una impactante sorpresa.
Sin embargo, para que estuviésemos hablando de un relato redondo, Chris Brosnahan debería haber prescindido de un final absurdo y atropellado que desentona bastante con el fantástico desarrollo de la idea original.
Aun así, si te gusta la cienciaficción o te interesa el tema de la percepción visual, deberías sin duda alguna darle una oportunidad.
Chris Brosnahan wrote POV inhours, In fact, it was the winner of ahours competition for the best novel written in that frame of time.
For that alone, POV is impressive, I can barely write a short story inhours, I guess you could be a nitpicker and say that, atpages, it barely qualifies as a novella.
. . but I'm still impressed.

But is it good Yeah, It is really good, It's a nice mix of science fiction and thriller centering around a future technology in which a person can receive a device inside their eyes that can change their view of the world change the color of your car, make your partner into a movie star, make yourself thinner, etc.
The resulst are only viewable to you, or least that is what we are told from the beginning, but I think you can see the advantages.
Our optometrist hero discovers that someone is killing the people that are receiving this new tech from him.


That's enough to know except to expect a few sharp turns, It's a good story especially considering how much the author placed in it with ahour time limit andodd pages.
But that's the problem with it too, There's so much this could have easily been a longer novel, I wanted it to be a longer novel, Some things happen too fast and could easily have survived more buildup and emotional embellishment, Not that it didn't have that, mind you, I just wanted more! More! More!

I guess that's a compliment too, I'm not sure it is a fair criticism since the author set out to do what he needed to do and did it well.
I gotta stick with my gut feeling, But here's a bit of unsolicited advice, There is a tradition in the science fiction genre for authors to take very popular short stories and rewrite them into novels.
If any work is screaming for a longer rewrite, this is it,

There are alsoother brief pieces included in this ebook, All of the tales are quite good with "The Warning" and "The Happy Pills" being fairly awesome,

The whole kit and caboodle Three and a half, Receiver a free copy from NetGalley

Book wasn't too bad, Surprisingly short, so not a lot of time for character growth, Also not a lot of time to really care about the characters, Very quick and easy read, Wouldn't call this a must read for anyone, This more fits to read when you have nothing else to read, Read all my reviews on sitelink booklikes. com

POV was written during ahour writing challenge over a single weekend, and it was published because it won that competition.
It is remarkable that anyone can write a comprehensivepage story in this short time frame, However, you can feel a bit that the author was trying to tell a much bigger story but due to time limitations he probably cropped it into this format.
This makes the story feel crowded and the revelations come so quick after each other that they loose some of the power.


It was a quick and easy read, and at the end there are a couple of really short stories, which are actually really good better even than the main stories.
Especially 'The Happy Pills'.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review! POV was Brosnahan's winning entry in The Kernel'sHour novel competition and I think, is very well constructed for something written in that time frame.
What I struggled with the most was the link between the IDRoPS with the clone revelation I felt like it wound up being some explanation of the technological ability in the future, rather than a a link between 'pretending' and the world.
In his musing on what he learnt, he mentioned that he wasn't so confident about the 'clone' aspect of the novel, but he didn't have the luxury of coming up with a new idea and I think that shows a little

in the rushed action from discovery to conclusion.


I think there could've have been had there been time to explore the implications of being a clone, the ethics of what was done to John and his counterpart and to expound on ability to see clearly, not through some altered reality.
So in that sense it felt quite unfinished to me but in reading POV I could tell that Brosnahan had so many ideas to express so I'm looking forward to further works.
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I received this galley thanks to Netgalley and HarperCollins, All opinions are my own, I found this refreshingly fastpaced, if a little short compared to my usual taste, It had a nice snap to it, and I particularly like the technology in play, An author to watch, for sure, Apparently this novel was written inhours and it shows, The characters are developed to a certain extent but there was so much more that could be made of them.


Certain things happened too fast, without any further explanation or build up for effect or emotional embellishment.
In short the book was good as far as it went but this reader felt that the author only touched the surface of what could have been a really gripping in depth psychological thriller.
It is difficult to say too much without giving the plot away but more, more, more is definitely better in this case.
More character development, more back story and more suspense,

That said the pace of the novel is good and even, and to a degree the reader felt outside the novel as though they were viewing the action on the television or in a movie.
The middle of the novel could have been fleshed out more and the interesting reveal could have been more suspenseful.
This reader feels that the brevity of the novel did not do any favours to the plot line and in fact harms it to a great degree.
This is a good example of a book that offers so much more potential than the author afforded it.
This reader felt that the ending was inevitable,

This reader hopes that as this authors craft develops that he will revisit this novel and rework what is a short novel into a full length psychological thriller with more of everything which is what this story deserves.


I could not see the point of the four other brief pieces added at the end of the book and this reader did not bother reading them all as they had absolutely nothing to do with the main story.


It will be interesting to see how this new author develops in the future,


Full Disclosure: ARC received from Netgalley for an honest review,
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