Timecaster
Narrator: Patrick Lawlor
Genre: Sci-Fi
Book description (from Good Reads): Chicago, 2064: Talon Avalon is a timecaster-one of a select few peace officers who can operate a TEV, the Tachyon Emission Visualizer, which records events (most specifically, crimes) that have already happened. With crime at an all-time low, Talon has little to do except give lectures to school kids and obsess on his wife's profession as a licensed sex partner. Until one of her clients asks Talon to investigate a possible murder. When Talon uses the TEV to view the crime, the identity of the killer is unmistakable-it's him, Talon Avalon.
Picked to accomplish the reading prompt in the Winter Biannual Bibliathon: Read a bok by an author you've never heard of.
Thoughts:
The plotline overall sounded good, the futuristic world, even with all the inconsistencies with the logic of the technology, well you could ignore that a bit and it was still good.
The utopian world that came due to the fact people were now unable to even think they would get away with crimes, there was no need to commit them, you were going to get caught 100% of the time. That is a very good deterrent to crime or at least to the most violent of them (murder mainly).
The bad part that is, the nonsense is too much. There are way too many sex scenes that were not necessary at all.
The main character who is a badass who can against all odds pull off stunts no other human being can, ok very typical action movie. The evil genius who is orchestrating it all "behind the scenes" putting the blame on the only man who can stop him, ok again another classic (cliche) still somewhat acceptable. But then a lot of the characters are plain disgusting, the sex is referenced in a bad way, the women just can't seem to resist the main character, he got the girl everyone else seems to want, the other very few females who are mentioned want him so bad they have to gang rape him, seriously?
There are things that put me off reading mood, the overly mentioned sex being the main one. Also, he seems to be the only good person along with his super hot wife that every other man seems to want (lust over) the rest of the people mentioned are completely nuts, not very bright and mostly disgusting because everyone is so obsessed with wither drugs (except our to aforementioned above) or sex.
I had wanted to read the story because it sounded interesting, a world where there is no more crime, where there are technological advances that allow you to see the past, a different take on a utopian society.
*SPOILER COMING*
The other universes where the multiple possibilities of the same life exist, it all sounded good. I always want to read something along those lines. The good guy being framed, the typical no one but himself and the love of his life know the truth, betrayals from the people the hero trusts.
Even the cliche evil genius kidnaps the loved one and makes the run, the hero must decide if saving the world is most important, and yet... all the other things make it unenjoyable.
This book was just not for me really.
The bad part that is, the nonsense is too much. There are way too many sex scenes that were not necessary at all.
The main character who is a badass who can against all odds pull off stunts no other human being can, ok very typical action movie. The evil genius who is orchestrating it all "behind the scenes" putting the blame on the only man who can stop him, ok again another classic (cliche) still somewhat acceptable. But then a lot of the characters are plain disgusting, the sex is referenced in a bad way, the women just can't seem to resist the main character, he got the girl everyone else seems to want, the other very few females who are mentioned want him so bad they have to gang rape him, seriously?
There are things that put me off reading mood, the overly mentioned sex being the main one. Also, he seems to be the only good person along with his super hot wife that every other man seems to want (lust over) the rest of the people mentioned are completely nuts, not very bright and mostly disgusting because everyone is so obsessed with wither drugs (except our to aforementioned above) or sex.
I had wanted to read the story because it sounded interesting, a world where there is no more crime, where there are technological advances that allow you to see the past, a different take on a utopian society.
*SPOILER COMING*
The other universes where the multiple possibilities of the same life exist, it all sounded good. I always want to read something along those lines. The good guy being framed, the typical no one but himself and the love of his life know the truth, betrayals from the people the hero trusts.
Even the cliche evil genius kidnaps the loved one and makes the run, the hero must decide if saving the world is most important, and yet... all the other things make it unenjoyable.
This book was just not for me really.
The next book in the series duology or whatever I am not going to pick it up. The theme is to my liking the executing not for me.
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