5 stars Craig A. Falconer always delivers stories that keep you turning the pages. At first, this series contains a couple of logical gaps: first, that people in a world where reality is constantly altered would trust video as reliable evidence; second, that individuals with no income could generate earnings by watching ads. Both ideas seem questionable, yet they reflect emerging trends in which AI-generated content fills streams, and ads are increasingly watched by those unable to skip them. Given that targeted ads often show recently purchased items, having people watch and rate ads could be the next logical step. Society appears to accept AI video as real when it aligns with expectations, so perhaps accepting video evidence of crime, especially against those seen as having it too good, is not as implausible as it first appears. Ultimately, these points highlight how reality and perception can be manipulated, raising questions about what we consider believable in both fiction and our world.
The series consists of the 2 main books and what appears to be over 20 chapters of side stories cut from them, previously released in 3 separate books. So the 5-book set is a bit misleading. These chapters do fill in some gaps of what happened to people the main characters in the first 2 books have short interactions with. Plus other side stories that fill out that world. Some that cover more than one "chapter", though often interwoven, so you might ask why it ends there only to have it continue a chapter or two later.
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