Anticipation by Neil Taylor - Review

Hello and welcome to my blog for my stop on the tour for Anticipation by Neil Taylor! It's a pleasure to welcome you here and I am so glad I am on the tour for this book! I was also lucky enough to get a paper copy of this in the post, which was a lovely surprise. Thank you so much to The Write Reads and to Neem Tree Press for having me on board!

If you're new to my blog please do have a click around and read some of my other reviews. I love Young Adult literature which is why I signed up for  this tour. It is a really good example of dystopian YA literature and I would recommend it to anyone who likes that. 

So, Riya is seventeen and she lives with her dad. Her mum is already dead, and at the very beginning of the book her dad dies in a plane accident. She is left with her auntie Hannah and staff from the company that her dad owned. He was in tech and it turns out he had made a very sophisticated AI machine that these social media giants are nore after. The main guy here is like the Mark Zuckerberg of the book, but much more evil. He comes after Riya and she has to get away, aided by some of her dad's employees. 

She then has to decide whether she wants to become a Keyholder for the company. This will teach her about the AI machine but it will risk her life even more. But she feels like she has a moral responsibility to keep the creation out of the hands of ruthless people. 

She faces a lot of true peril and I really enjoyed watching her escape - it's like an action film. I did feel like there were maybe a couple of bits towards the end that weren't needed, but it is a really good, twisty and turny thriller that I think teens will love. 

I am sure there will be more in the series, too! 

I liked Riya and I liked a lot of the supporting characters. I would definitely read something else by Neil and I'm giving this four out of five.