Omnitopia Dawn: Omnitopia #1

Not long on this one. Sounds good when you read the premise, but it's unfortunately tired and sporadic. The premise can be found in a good number of stories, with the same old tired conflicts, man versus world, man versus man-made-world, reality dysfunction (Sorry, Mr. Hamilton), and fantasy world building and structure by the characters.

Even a fairly good narrator can't help this one.

Yawn. Who needs codine when you have this?

An interesting book, good for a light and entertaining evening listen. Very much a "good vs evil", with the lines clearly delineated and not much in the way of moral quandaries.

I would compare it to the ".HACK//SIGN" anime series. Both deal with an awakening sentience in a fantasy MMORPG represented as a childlike figure, although SIGN focuses on the internal world, while Dawn focuses on the real-world events and personalities surrounding it.

Narration is good enough, with emotion and action coming through well.

This is one of my all time favorites, I hope she writes more Sci-Fi. Diane is a very good writer.

If you're one who likes there science fiction to be entertaining, fun you might like this - but if you insist that the tech be built on somewhat believable foundations, then pass on this novel. While I enjoyed some of the idea behind the story, the hugely noticeable holes in the foundation of the science repeatedly dropped me out of the story. SciFi doesn't need to be proved out on paper, but the lack of even the smallest bridge from present day to this not so distant future was lacking entirely. And if you don't care about that, note that this is one of those books where the good guys are always good, and the bad always bad. Neither face situations that could sway them one way or another, they just seem to always be good, resulting in lucky days, and vice versa.