This is a very classic YA novel. The dialog and the very light touch with the sex scenes take me back to when I was 14. At that time I tended to avoid them, I wanted the more ambiguous material, and really I still feel the same way. It's well plotted, Sanford doesn't give his direction away much, so very good on suspense. But the characters are in the end pretty simple people, with very definite roles to play, so they kind of run on rails--a very YA thing. And while the plot is good and complex, it doesn't seem to bear much relationship to today. CRISPR gene editing is indeed a thing, and might be the next advance leading to social breakdown, but it really doesn't look like we'll need that. Since overly gene-edited creatures and humans are the driver of the plot, and supposedly at least 10,000 years have gone by since the major collapse occurred, I just couldn't connect with these folks much. I wish them luck, I guess.
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