The Minders

The book is set in a futuristic England, where technology has advanced. You can get a cheek swab to find your perfect mate and cars drive autonomously. In trying to protect the government’s secrets in a highly advanced technological world, the government developed a new program and recruited ordinary people with a specific skill set to guard their secrets from the hacking collective. I am picky in what sci fi and fantasy books I read. I need them based in a reality I can believe. This really hit the mark. I first read Orwell’s 1984 in 1984, when everything in his book was still a prediction. And since then, I’ve lived through where technology has taken. I will admit, I’m still slightly disappointed we didn’t arrive at robot cleaners and flying cars from the Jetsons. And while the world created by Marrs isn’t happening, you never know if or when it could. There are a lot of characters thrown at you pretty early on, with alternating chapters about them, but the author is pretty good at reminding you who they are without being repetitive. And as I read the book, moving from character to character, I knew what was going on, but didn’t always know what it meant. I couldn’t read fast enough to find out where the story would end up. I recommend this if you want to escape to highly technological world field with suspense and thrills.