Rainbows End

I wanted to give this novel more than three stars. The author explores a number of interesting ideas about the intersection of technology and society in a seemingly utopian near future. Written a decade ago, and predating the ubiquity of smart phones, social media, massive international cyber crimes and the seeming end of privacy, the book seems prescient in many places, although perhaps already dated in others. My real problem with this book is that the narrative is plodding, the plot thin, the character development one dimensional, the dialogue wooden, and the resolution anticlimactic. I don't normally write bad reviews of books I've read, but this one was so frustrating, since it could have been so much more.