====== Summer Frost, by Blake Crouch ======

ISBN: Not available on paper\\
Amazon ID: [[https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07VHMRYPR|B07VHMRYPR]]

Blake can clearly write very good books - see [[https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B019IO6BU6|Dark Matter]], [[https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07LCSPGTN|Recursion]], or even the [[Wayward Pines]] trilogy.

Summer Frost is a short story, and it's good that it is - not because of the quality of the story, but because of an intensely irritating (to me, at least) aspect of the writing style - consistently referring to a singular entity (an artificial intelligence as one of the central characters) in the plural.

Phrases such as "I wanted to see what they would do next" or "they were standing on the other side of the glass from me", when "they" is just a single individual, grates so much whilst reading this book that I only managed to finish it simply __because__ it was a short story.

The premise is good, and the narrative works well, but the style lets it down to the point where I barely recommend it.

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