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Turns out I was right to DNF this book. http://disabilityinkidlit.com/2017/02/24/review-omegaball-by-robert-j-peterson/

I just can't with the world building in this book. The tech is nonsensically inconsistent, the teen slang is the same as current day slang, and now there has been over half a dozen 1980s-1990s pop culture references within a page or two. Including a reference to "eighties cartoons". The book is set in 2197.

DNF page 37.

So... Her wheelchair has mimetic plastoid wheels that can scale stairs or convert into suction cups with a flick of her fingers. The world has nanosat zones where the air is teeming with nanoparticles that can organise themselves into any tech in an instant, turning "most of the planet into one giant app". But there is no piss tube that won't break all the time? Because plot point.

I'm already annoyed with this book and it is only page fourteen.

I haven't started Omegaball yet (it's not due back at the library till next year). Has anyone read it?

Better than so-so, not quite a pick, I will be carrying this book. There are elements of Ready Player One and Feed. The story is intriguing with fleshed out characters, including one in a wheelchair. Some twists and turns -- some predictable, one that shocked me, one that I didn't buy. Teens might enjoy it. It's fast-paced, told in intertwining blog posts of a sort. Some goofy humor that didn't quite work for me, but a cool world and new sport!