DiSemblance by Shanae Branham - Review

DiSemblance by Shanae Branham

Paperback, 369 pages

Published August 20th 2012 by CreateSpace (first published August 1st 2012)

The author contacted me to review her book in exchange for an honest review.

Summary:

Jason Tanner’s life has always been different from the ordinary citizen’s. It started when he was an infant and his parents were only teenagers. A computer science prodigy, Lloyd attended MIT but left a pariah in the eyes of the school’s dean—but a computer physics genius in the eyes of his primary investor. Then his theories and ideas created a holographic machine and their world shrunk as contact with the outside world became less and less frequent. A computer prodigy now himself, Jason is about to learn that the world never waits for you if you have the ability to change it: it will come for you.
Detective Bruce Durante has been handed the case of the Comfort Killer, a serial killer so named because he appears to abduct terminally ill patients before returning their corpses to their families in refrigerated coffins. When he picks up the trail, it leads straight to the home of Lloyd Tanner.
Jason has been living life through the world of Lloyd’s invention and wishing he could carry on a relationship with Boston, the beautiful girl next door. When his father is murdered and framed as the Comfort Killer, he is brought back to reality in a hurry. He is forced to destroy all of the planted evidence—and finds he is being targeted as the killer’s new fall guy. But the secrets of his father’s invention run deep and Jason, his brother Isaac,Boston, the Comfort Killer, and Detective Durante hurtle towards one another on a deadly collision course that leaves everyone’s life hanging in the balance.

My Review:

I was super excited when the author asked me to review the book! I saw a lot of great reviews on Goodreads and I really liked this book!

This book started out a bit slow for me, it was kinda boring, but near the middle and the end, that's where the good parts were. It was also confusing for me. I didn't really understand the process of the digital copies and everything. It was just too complicated for me! And when they were in and out of the machine, with the different text font, I still didn't really comprehend it. Plus, with all the lies and everything, I couldn't keep track of what was real and what was fake.

Other than that, this book was really cool. With the concept of a machine that can take you anywhere you want with just a thought, it's kinda scary and kinda cool at the same time. I mean, what if it broke down and you got stuck in it?

Overall, I feel that if the book was more...in depth with how everything worked then I'd love it even more! Also, I have to say, I didn't really like Boston much. I have no idea why, it's just a feeling I get when I read about her. 4 Stars!