What Steph doesn’t know is that the admin of the site, CheshireCat, is a sentient A.I. Her only constant is an online community called CatNet - a social media site where users upload cat pictures - a place she knows she is welcome.
How much does the internet know about YOU? A thought-provoking near-future YA thriller that could not be more timely as it explores issues of online privacy, artificial intelligence, and the power and perils of social networks.īecause her mom is always on the move, Steph hasn’t lived any place longer than six months. My first thought was, “Huh, how’s that going to work?” I decided it probably wouldn’t work well.Īfter that, I forgot about it, until suddenly its release date loomed, and I read its blurb and found myself on the phone in the middle of a workday to my local bookstore, saying, “I need this book, will you have it?” They obligingly ordered it for me, and I grabbed it up with a surprising amount of anticipation.
Why I Chose It: I read and really enjoyed Kritzer’s award-winning short story “ More Cat Pictures, Please” and heard she was expanding that world of a kind, cat-loving, self-improvement-urging AI into a novel.
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