Anthem-Reaction

I was not able to truly relate to this book. Its characters and writing style did not connect with me, and I found that I had no affiliation toward Equality, the Golden One, or any of the other people within the novel. It was not of great concern to me what happened in the end because I could not relate to any of them.
I respected Equality for his determination to rebel, and that he challenged the normalities of his society; however, I did not feel the bond that I have felt for other characters from other stories, such as Montag or Offred. Maybe because it was written in such a structured manner I did not view Equality as a real person, but just as another machine in the tangled web of technology.
Equality was gradually finding his inner strength as an individual, and I found that empowering; but to me, Anthem was just another futuristic story that warned against extreme technology and the advances that it makes, and to be mindful of the hands that this power succumbs to.
It was not a bad book, it was just a story that I could not connect with on a higher level.