Title: William by Mason Coile
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Culture: American
Themes: Cyber noir, fear of the unknown, reality vs fiction, marriage dynamics, AI

Stephen King Meets Saw in this eerie AI thriller

Release Date: September 10th

A sentient haunted house of horrors, William by Mason Coile is bound to give you chills and dread in this captivating page turning story of technology gone horribly wrong. With a contemporary feel that hits way to close to home, Coile masterfully takes you through a couple’s survival story of everything that could go wrong with AI while making you question whether we’ve gone too far as a society in our reliance on technology.

With quick chapters and a fast paced this book is an absolute page turner for me – I read it in 1 sitting! The premise of the book is simple, a brilliant couple whose devotion to technology and AI goes farther than they imagined and gets out of control. Coile does an excellent job of storytelling -the ins and outs of Henry and Lily’s married life, meeting with friends and their work projects. He builds a picture of their lives with ease in a very relatable way. Besides the eerie feel, gory action, and tense pace of the story, some of the scariest parts are how Henry and Lilly justify what they have done and the world they live in; how Henry and Lily each try to explain away the chaos they are enduring as part of the process of technology but realizing too late that things have gotten way out of hand. It is William who makes them realize the error of their ways in so many painful ways.

Each character is completely relatable in how they navigate life and their social skills – the quirky husband Henry to the brilliant wife Lily. But when they are together, I got a whole different vibe….I just didn’t like them together. The husband and wife just didn’t mesh well and seemed to be on completely different pages – 1 completely afraid of life and can’t leave their house while the other is full of life and isn’t scared of anything. But the plot twist at the end is to die for!!!!!!!!  I 100% was not prepared for the plot twist – I literally didn’t see it coming. I had to take a moment and absorb what I had just read.  After reading the plot twist, I understood why I had so many issues with the husband and wife. I imagined the sound of the house’s front door shutting for the last time incredibly unnerving, echoing in my mind long after I finished the book.

If you’re looking for a spooky, gruesome, though-provoking read that will scare you in more ways than one, then William by Mason Coile if definitely your next read. I highly recommend it!