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Title: The Feed
Author: Nick Clark Windo
Narrator: Clare Corbett, Nick Clark Windo
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-25-18
Publisher: Headline
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:
The Feed by Nick Clark Windo is a startling and timely debut which presents a world as unique and vividly imagined as Station Eleven and The Girl with All the Gifts and explores what it is to be human in the digital age.
What will you become when The Feed goes down?
The Feed is everywhere. It can be accessed by anyone at any time. Every interaction, every emotion, every image can be shared through it.
Tom and Kate use The Feed, but they have resisted addiction to it. And this will serve them well when The Feed collapses. Until their six-year-old daughter, Bea, goes missing.
Because how do you find someone in a world devoid of technology? And what happens when you can no longer trust that your loved ones are really who they claim to be?

Members Reviews:
Interesting and fun first novel
This was a hard book to review. If you have ever read a P.K. Dick story, e.g.,The Philip K. Dick Collection, then you will have had a similar experience. The work is full of cool ideas, but it is not necessarily as polished as some contemporary authors.
It was an admitted first novel, and I respect the honesty. So, I'm reviewing this as a work in the general class of first novels and not comparing it to Hemingway. If you pick this up and wonder why it is not of the same literary significance as "the Old Man and the Sea" then you're simply going to hate this novel.
On the other hand, if you are willing to read it for some interesting ideas and engaging descriptions then it will be a fun, short read.
The other reviews' criticisms are accurate, but there is some hidden depth to the book if you read all the way to the end.
The premise of the book is that in the near future the Feed (think Google, Facebook, Amazon, and every government all exist in a connected web that is interfaced directly with your neuron-system) controls everything. The first section talks about a war starting over the Arctic, and then, you jump cut to six years later and society has collapsed. You are led to believe that government actions in war caused the collapse ... more later on that notion.
A fundamental question in the book is "how well would a wholly interconnected, plugged in world survive if the infrastructure completely collapsed?
At this point, and for most of the rest of the book, it reminded me ofWoolandGetting Out: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller (The EMP).
I'm going to gingerly skate around some issues to prevent spoilers, but will deliver with some spoilers at the end, appropriately marked.
What you think happened is not really what happened to cause the mayhem, and that is revealed in little peaks throughout the book. I give Mr. Windo, the author, credit for the little reveals. That is a nice touch.
Predictably, some of the people want to try and recreate the world that was, and others adapt reasonably well to the new world -- but, not very many.
Without giving it away, the end was the reason for the one star deduction.
The time has come ...
** SPOILERS FOLLOW **
You've been warned!
Alright, the real reason for the collapse was that a group of genetically modified, post humans, full of nanobots who are super resilient and essentially immortal invaded the Feed and started to take over common citizens. Being superhuman, but short of omniscient, they grossly, grossly miscalculated, and the whole world unraveled before their eyes.