While I loved the first two books in the Atopia series this book seemed just like a summary of the first book and there wasn't really much point in reading it but it hasn't put me off reading more from Matthew Mather, when he gets it right it is absolutely brilliant but I would skip the Utopia Chronicles.

Since this is Book 3 in the series I'm glad the author provided a quick summary of the story so far.   The main character, Bob sets off for different world's and different time lines searching for the truth and maybe love.  It's not exactly a page turner.  Bob is a little self-centered but he might be saving the world (at least his world).

Ok story, the writing style is a bit odd at times. The pace is uneven and the story confusing at times.

An amazing book.  Very glad I had the chance to read and highly suggest it for fans of this genre.  It offered a different perspective from novels of this genre, one that I enjoyed.

Proclaiming itself utopian, this is very much the down side. It is constructed like a short story in some ways - we sense it heading for a quick turn around somehow. The writing is clear but, for me, flat ... it could be I am just not engaged in the future as it is laid out here. the characters serve their purposes but I don't feel gripped by their plight - consigning people to a special place which you cannot reach, and a priest to-the-rescue who cannot really help. Just passed me by.

I was looking forward to reading the final book in this series, but in the end I was quiet disappointed.

I enjoyed the first book in this series, with its emphasis on technological ideas and the various ways they could be implemented and some of the ways they might affect those using them. The second book in this series seemed to take a turn in a significantly direction, but I still enjoyed where it picked up from the first book. This third book is an entirely different game altogether (which is sometimes very enjoyable and refreshing, but in this case it wasn't executed well). It starts off seeming to have some relation to the first two books and even picks up the plot from a point within the first book. However, it quickly transforms into a very different book and focus altogether.

Essentially the plot had very few concrete elements whatsoever and instead was several hundred pages of the author trying to implement and explain some very abstract concepts. It could have been a good thing but ultimately there were so few concrete anchors and so many of the abstract elements developed so quickly that there was really nothing to hold me (the reader) in place. You go through one chapter after the next that depicts disjointed (and non-linear) singular scenes that should be a way for the main character to essentially discover himself (and in that sense it shares a few similarities with coming-of-age novels). However, there's just nothing to keep your interest and I was often just looking forward to the book being over. The ending was also very anti-climactic, could more or less be guessed from a long ways away, and really didn't enrich the book at all.

So, I applaud the author for having the courage to take the book in a very different direction than the previous ones and for attempting some newer narrative techniques and trying to put such abstract concepts into writing. However, I wish he'd invested more time into making sure it had a worthy plot or was otherwise more engaging. So, the attempt was made and I appreciate that, but it certainly seemed like a failure.

While I do enjoy Sci-Fi and dystopian novels, this one needed a bit more. I don't think the world-building was well developed which in a novel of this type is critical to success.

I didn't read the first two books but there was a synopsis of the first two books in the beginning of this one to catch me up to speed. 

I am a fan of dystopian books but this one has a lot of Science Fiction characteristics that just aren't my thing. I'm more into World building than the explanation of how the fictional technology works, like reading a manual of future sciences. 

I think I would feel differently if I had read the first two books and had  been exposed the science fiction aspect gradually and for that reason I didn't give it a single star. I feel there are readers that love this type of super detailed science fiction. Outside of that it liked the main idea of the book and found it interesting and scary. I hope we never get that type of technology.

Despite the rich summary of previous installments at the beginning of the book, in any way I could immerse myself in the world of this dystopian science fiction novel. I noticed a lot of potential, but just did not take me. A pity.
I thank 47North Netgalley and for giving me a free copy in exchange for an honest review.