Circle of Desire

I wanted to like this book, or at least appreciate it. Seeing the trailer for the movie and reading the description for the book made it sound like an interesting near-future thriller. I still have hopes for the movie, but not see-it-in-theaters level hopes, more like catch-it-on-Netflix ones.

The book is at least competently written, but I still gave up on it halfway through and skimmed a bit near the end to get some closure. I just couldn't care enough any more, and not even making snarky notes on my bookmark index card was helping. The social commentary was too ham-fisted, none of the characters were really likeable, and I found myself wanting to tell all of them to take a long walk off a short pier wearing the finest in cement footwear.