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Someone to Watch Over Me

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This is one of the best sci-fi books I have ever read. It is a tightly-plotted, well written novel that takes you places you've never been, and makes you think about everything from this media-driven world, to the nature of the divine. All while being thoroughly entertaining!

By far the most impressive thing about this book for me was Ms. Sullivan's use of language. I found myself amazed on nearly every page by the freshness of her descriptions. Describing a sunset as being the color of ripe cantaloupe. Ah, to be able to write like that!

In short, this is a fun, fun book that is also quite thought provoking and full of genuine literary merit. Buy this one!

Solid, satisfying and well-plotted, 'Someone to Watch Over Me' demonstrates an interest in identity and the body Tricia Sullivan shares with many of the cyberpunks and in particular, Pat Cadigan. But this is post-cyberpunk with better language - rich vivid and dense at times but never off the point.

Like some other recent SF writers she sets up characters who look like cyberpunk stereotypes (karate-kicking street kid with a heart of gold etc.), but who in fact turn out to vulnerable, messed-up and, well, human.

But it's missing something that I can't quite work out... perhaps a particular spark of originality that would have made it something really special.

Ms. Sullivan's lucid writing takes the reader into the hearts, minds, and landscapes ("he wore New York like a mantle") of her subjects as vividly as the novel's victims are inhabited by their "watchers." "Someone.." is a frightening and literate vision of what technology and misplaced power could hold in the very near future

This is a good one, and hard to put down. The story is interesting, and the characters are very strong. I did feel that it fell apart a little at the end, but the pleasure of the rest of the book made up for it.