The Text by Julane Fisher: Full Review

The Text by Julane Fisher contains quite a few chilling correlations to real life, and the story itself held my attention throughout.

I’ll admit that it’s tough to hold my attention, even as an avid reader. One reason is that many dystopian works like to set a lot, and I mean a lot of exposition, leaving me to think, “Couldn’t you have just shown this through flashback or something?”

Even some of my favorites that I’ll be sharing in later posts do that, but The Text by Julane Fisher wasn’t one of those books. Instead, the old cliche faster than a speeding bullet is an appropriate way to describe the pacing. 

That alone gives this book at least a three-star rating. And while I don’t give books star ratings here, those reviews I leave on Goodreads and BookBub have them. But I’d be lying if I said the work’s ceiling was a three-star review because it’s closer to four stars. 

Yeah, there were some glaring typos that made me double back, action that was mentioned later in the work that seemed to be edited out in previous sections, and some blatant Chat GPT text. Trust me, I’ve tried writing my own work using Chat, so I can list every single redundancy it spits out, even if it’s “smarter” than it was here in late 2024. 

Anyway, enough of the overview, let me get to what I liked, didn’t like, and why this is a great work for a libertarian audience, even if I’ve done a few deep dives already.