Consider me impressed right now. We shall see how long the honeymoon lasts, but I'm pretty stoked.

The #LibraColour is faster than stink compared to my 12th generation #KindlePaperwhiteSignature, is color, has a very functional stylus for annotating books, syncs with #GoogleDrive and #Pocket, and has a notes app that does handwriting to text conversion (think #Nebo).

The meh: The writing could have been tighter, but it never detracted from the story.

The verdict: This book invites you to consider how persuasion and propaganda affect you in the real world today.

A prequel about the creation of Drayton College would definitely be interesting.

Rating: 4/5

The timely: "Here, Lennon thought of elections and democracy, campaigns of misinformation, nuclear codes and espionage, coups in the dead of night. On a geopolitical level, the power that they wielded here could rise to the level of a weapon of war, if not one of mass destruction."

The players: If you need a protagonist to root for, this isn't the book for you. Lennon is, at best, an antihero with a penchant for running away from dodgy choices leading to problems. If you enjoy a bevy of miscreants and overt villains that all have repugnant moments, you're in the right place.

Definitely 1.