Title: Cyberspace for Dummies?
Review: ...Most of "Tea" chronicles the investigations of two people, The World's Most Clueless Detective (tm) and The World's Most Gullible Semi-Girlfriend (tm). They're both looking for someone - the detective is investigating a murder, and the girlfriend is looking her favorite jerk. The deeply irritating thing is that neither of them have a great deal of experience with AR (that's Alternate Reality) and we have to watch not just one, but BOTH of them fumble ineptly through a painfully dull cyberspace (a big, burned out, and frequently empty city... but I will say that[i was]was completely unprepared for[the ending], for two reasons: (1) it's a twist I never would have expected, and (2) it is so much more creative and intelligent than the rest of the book...I had to re-read a few pages, and was happy to do so. The ending alone gets the book an extra star; it's too bad the preceding 95% of the story achieve anywhere near that level of inspiration.
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