Chaos on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

While this wasn't a bad read--at all--what made it extremely charming and compelling in the first book was kinda overwritten by large, even huge, stakes.

I'm not one to hate it when larger stakes take over in tales, but when a book successfully pulls off a more comfortable, cute, even wholesome plot-rock, I feel a huge desire to keep it going. The whole down-to-earth AI helper storyline was truly delightful.

Unfortunately, that feel was subsumed beneath an ever-increasing scale and scope of dread that could have been simply banked at a simple cult-level, with strict focus on friendship and aid--not a world domination shtick.

Alas. It wasn't bad, otherwise, and perhaps devoted YA readers out there would LOVE this twist. It simply didn't work for me.

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