The Every Book Reviews

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A compelling read (warning for spoilers). There are some parallels to ‘The Circle’ that seems to give you a nicely subverted expectation. Instead, in the protagonist’s friend Wes, we get to witness what Mae’s descent into the rabbit hole of The Circle must have looked like from the outside in the first book. (Spoilers ahead) By the end, I was surprised that this seemed very much like a modern update of ‘1984’. The events seemed to parallel, especially near the end. A fake rebellion, hinted at by a man that is, ultimately, in charge of rooting things like this out by whatever means necessary. In this, “ThoughtCrimes” come in the form of Eye Tracking, secret HereMe recordings and the Friendy app (etc). Departments are given flowery names and given shortened portmanteaus that both describe and mask their true purpose (like how the MinPax was the Ministry of War). Friendy, initially, was only created to expose those who weren’t good friends (and spiraled from there). And all there PC wording and phrasing (unhoused, instead of homeless) was a more subtle way of using words as weapons. While ‘1984’ tried to condense language into as few words as possible (‘bad’ was replaced by ‘ungood’), ‘The Every’ encouraged expanding vocabulary, but couldn’t actually tell if words were used correctly, making it entirely useless. At the end, much like George in ‘1984’, Delaney gives in. She sympathizes and wants to help Mae just as George wants to confess everything to O’Brien. Del gives Mae her biggest and best ideas (and the final nail in the coffin of any opposition of The Every), even fantasizing that she and Mae could edge out Stenton and run things side-by-side. This is her “I love Big Brother” moment. George’s revelation comes just before his public execution just as Delaney’s comes right before her private, solitary ‘fall’ from a cliff. It was wonderfully done, seeing her finally starting to succumb to the Stockholm Syndrome of working at The Every just in time for all of her previous actions to come back and bite her. And, for all of the hate and resentment towards Mae for nearly the entirety of the book, for Del to collapse into her arms and start sobbing the moment that they meet was unexpected. You can tell right away that she’d built Mae up into such a monster that she wasn’t expecting her to be a petite woman that actually looked exactly like she does in all of her appearances. She didn’t expect to be met with someone kind, sympathetic and genuine…an actual person. (Even though it was all just an act…and Del had grossly underestimated how cunning, manipulative and calculating Mae actually is). Still, it’s fascinating that Del didn’t decide to change her stance on The Every until after she met the woman that she’d, essentially, considered her mortal enemy from the very beginning. Well done.

Fascinating and terrifying. So modern and prophetic. This is the foretold truth of a changing world.

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