If I had to describe No Signal in two words they'd be: FLIPPING AWESOME! I've always said that I don't read science fiction but if this is an example of the genre then consider me converted. I haven't read Proximity, the first book in the iMe series, and I didn't feel at a disadvantage at all so you can definitely read No Signal as a standalone but I do really want to read Proximity now too.
In a future UK, everyone is fitted with an iMe - a device that not only tracks a person's location but, among many other things, monitors their health and wellbeing. You have no secrets from the powers that be therefore crime is virtually non-existent. You can't even eat a bar of chocolate without it being deducted from your allocated 'Freedom Units' and this is a big issue for the main character, Detective Inspector and chocaholic Clive Lussac. I thought I liked chocolate but I think Clive would actually die for a bar of chocolate, especially one that he can eat off the radar. It always amazes me that no matter how complex and secure you think a system is, there's always someone who finds a way to get around it.
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