The God Wave by Patrick HemstreetMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
The concept of this book was intriguing to me, or at least what I knew about it – a neuroscientist has tapped a region in the brain that allows humans a new ability. Well, a neuroscientist along with a mathematician and a robotics engineer – it took a team, plus the research subjects from various fields.
After their initial success the mathematician Matt, became the business driver of their new start-up, Forward Kinetics. Matt was relentless in wanting a good contract with deep pockets and when a military contract was offered Matt pushed the team to sign on. Of course this goes in a direction most the rest of the company founders wasn’t interested in.
A good portion of the book was about how the new technology was developed and starting up the business. It ended with quite a lot unresolved, but not quite a cliffhanger.
Most of the characters feel somewhat flat and not fully fleshed out, with many of few the attempts at doing not working well. I grimaced a few times while reading this. Not stellar writing, yet with the ending, it feels like part one of a two part book, so I’m continuing on for now.
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