I highly recommend reading this. Utopia and dystopia are some of my favourite genres, but reading this book, which is both fascinating and at the same time creepy, does not feel like reading about a dystopia, because we already have most of the technology necessary to build the "totalitarian nightmare" (as one of the characters calls it) installed by The Circle. We also already can see in our reality some aspects criticized by the book, the "fake friendships" via social network, the culture of oversharing every moment of our life to obsessively seek approval via likes and comments. And all of this is just the surface of the book, I will not write more detail about the plot and topics in order non to spoil stuff.

Regarding the pace, the first half of the book is quite slow-paced, but I encourage everyone to be patient and go through it; after the first half things start to become very interesting and scary.