Where do I start? Admittedly it took me a while to get into this, but then I became quite hooked. Take a dystopian future that could await us if we continue to live as selfishly as we do and allow the small percentage of highly rich people get away with whatever they feel like doing. Add in AI and how it can be incorporated into our lives, then throw in a few twists, some lies and a dose of guilt. 

Note: The author does have the art of leaving the end of a chapter on a cliff-hanger and thus urging one to ‘read just one more chapter’. 

There is a small set of survivors on an island threatened to be engulfed by a devastating fog that has already consumed the rest of the world. The people there are self-sustaining, growing what they eat and making what they need although the living conditions aren’t great. They spend part of their time doing the jobs required to sustain life on the island and part of their time pursuing their own interests. Emory seems different to the others. She has a lot of questions, can’t seem to settle down with anything she tries and hates the elders who lead the village as she blames them for the death of her husband. She also resents that her daughter became an apprentice to Thea (one of the elders), a position that Emory had not enjoyed herself and one that lost her her husband. 

Niema, one of the three elders is consumed with saving humanity and is involved in some very secret experiments. Then something unthinkable happens; no-one can remember anything and Emory is possibly the only person who can work out what happened. 

Good for creating discussions around the intrusive influence that large companies have on societies, what people will do for power and money and exploring the ramifications of artificial intelligence.

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