Book Review: William

 



Not human. Not machine. A being that's eerily prescient and hungry for revenge...Henry, a brilliant but agoraphobic robotics engineer, has achieved the crowning discovery of his he's created an artificially intelligent consciousness. He names the half-formed robot William and spends most of his hours studying it in his attic laboratory. But all is not right with William. The A.I. is filled with jealousy for humanity, for its capacity to love and create life. Henry is uneasy at first, then terrified when William develops an unsettling fixation on Henry's pregnant wife Lily. Left with no other choice, he is forced to terminate the A.I, but somehow William's consciousness survives. 

Henry and his wife wired their home to be the smartest of smart homes, a decision that may prove fatal since a vengeful William has now seized control of the house and its inhabitants. William is a lean, mean genre-bending novel that shifts seamlessly from psychological thriller and cyber-noir to haunted house horror and locked-box mystery. 

Fom the moment we meet Henry to the novel's surprising end, William will have readers on the edge of their seats, constantly asking themselves just what is going on? 'If reading with one hand over your mouth is your thing, this is the book for you' Gus Moreno, author of This Thing Between Us'From its first page all the way to its jaw-dropping ending, William had me hooked' Nick Cutter, author of The Troop and The Deep


My Review

I was drawn to this book by the premise of the story. The concept is not that far off to imagine it becoming reality. We are seeing more of AI used in today's world. It can be both a good and bad thing. 

I was expecting this book to be big on the horror aspect. It was sadly a miss for me. While I did finish the book, I felt like the scenes could have had a touch more time spent on them. They were too quick and glossed over to have much element of a horror factor. 

Where the characters are concerned, I really was not emotionally invested in them. There were elements interjected into the story to made you think that something big was going to happen. As far as the ending goes, I will give the author kudos that I did not see that coming. 

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