Summer Frost, by Blake Crouch

ISBN: Not available on paper
Amazon ID: B07VHMRYPR

Blake can clearly write very good books - see Dark Matter, 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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