Book: The Oracle Year
Author: Charles Soule
Pages: 428
This is my 108th read for the year
This is the story of Will Dando. He awakens one morning from a dream filled with 108 predictions about the future and starts to write them down. As they start to come true, he becomes the most powerful person in the world. Heads of countries and states start to pay him extremely large sums of money for information that he won't share with anyone else. At the same time - he is also making a lot of enemies especially among religious heads. Will releases the predictions slowly on something called "The Site" and he receives millions of emails asking for him to predict things for the general public - all which he ignores. No one really knows who he is - except those closes to him - and he becomes known as "The Oracle". As a manhunt for Will ensues he goes on the run to figure out when he should release the last of the predictions and how. Knowing that the future of the world rests on his shoulders, he needs to do it fast.
This was an okay book. I listened to it and it kept me entertained during a very long drive. There is a lot of tension and drama. It was an easy read (listen) for the most part. I didn't really love the characters. They were fine. Kept the plot moving forward. But nothing great. I liked the first half of the book a lot better than the second half. The ending fell a little flat.
Stars: 3.5
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