In the last book Koli steals a still working music player and befriends its AI Monono Aware, which eventually upgrades itself and becomes quite self-aware and self-learning. Our Koli is a 15-16 year-old from a small village of Mythen Rood in a place once known as “Ingland” (the future version of present-day Mytholmroyd in West Yorkshire, England). Now there are medieval-ish pocket communities where some old tech still survives, and the surrounding landscape prevents effective travel and communication because of carnivorous trees and mutant animals. We are a few generations after the Unfinished War led to disintegration of civilization and huge population decline. At least there was a second narrator to make it more bearable - but it still couldn’t save the book for me. The books where you can’t stand the protagonist are just not that much fun. Yeah, I know I’m being mean but I just can’t help it. It seems to have worked just fine for Koli. “Keeping people stupid is a good way of controlling them, but it’s a tough trick to pull off.”
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