BLURRED LINE tells the tale of a future world where androids are commonplace, big business runs everything, and people can experience virtual realities just as “real” as real life.  In Cavan Terrill’s vision of the future almost everything in the world is run by ten mega-companies, including world governments and armies.  This story revolves around a cast of characters who are either oppressed by these companies or trying to bring them down. 

Overall, the book was readable but I had a hard time connecting to the characters and the plot.  Almost every character who is introduced died shortly thereafter, making it difficult to really feel involved in the story.  Since there were no characters who stuck around for very long I couldn’t become interested in their plight.  For me the most interesting character was the “loneboy,” but he didn’t appear until almost the end of the novel. There were many times some elaboration could have helped the story but because the book was so short it felt like there simply wasn’t time for any embellishment of the plot. 

There were certainly some redeeming factors to this book.  What I enjoyed most were the believable advances in technology.  The androids in the story developed their artificial intelligence by manifesting multiple personalities and then discarding them as they achieved sentience.  His concept of the augmentation of humans with microchips and other enhancements was interesting as well, and I also enjoyed the way he saw where the internet could go. 

I would recommend BLURRED LINE to die-hard science fiction fans that are looking for a quick read.  Otherwise this may be a book to seek out at the library instead of buying it off the shelf.