I only got about 40% through this book.

GREAT plot. But the dysfunctional family was simply too depressing for me.

Hum (2024) is Helen Phillips 6th book.

It’s a dystopian novel set in the near future.

The air is polluted. World has heated up, requiring more air conditioning. Water supply questionable.

People spend a lot of time in ‘wooms’, something like a climate controlled capsule.

 “hums” – humanoid robots – are increasingly taking the jobs of humans.

Mary is out of work — and hears of an opportunity to earn several months’ salary by receiving an experimental facial injection, and takes it. The injection will render May’s face unrecognisable to the ubiquitous hums. She’s a guinea pig for a form of adversarial AI.

What could go wrong?