{"id":1253,"date":"2025-02-15T17:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.minduction.co\/barcelona\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2025-11-27T16:55:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:55:57","slug":"41-throwing-consider-dwelling-bachelor-joy-her-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onabreak.co.uk\/?p=1253","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Passengers by John Marrs"},"content":{"rendered":"

If this is your first introduction to one of John Marr’s novels, you’re in for the ride of your life…literally.<\/p>\n

Set in an almost plausible future, you will follow the destiny of eight driverless cars set on a collision course by an ominous hacker. Who will live and who will die is at the public’s discretion.<\/p>\n

What you’ll love about John Marrs is how close to reality his books are, in a way that his “what could happen” scenarios aren’t as unfeasible as you would like them to be!<\/p>\n

If you like a fast paced AI hacking heist with tons of moral dilemmas thrown into it and the potential dangers of self-driving cars, then make The Passengers<\/a><\/strong> your next travel companion.<\/p>\n

Unless you own a Tesla…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If this is your first introduction to one of John Marr’s novels, you’re in for the ride of your life…literally. Set in an almost plausible future, you will follow the destiny of eight driverless cars set on a collision course by an ominous hacker. Who will live and who will die is at the public’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,471],"tags":[335,333,349,32,375,248,350,357,334,376,332,337,373,124,378,374,336,379,377,153,352],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-of-the-month","category-dystopian","tag-a-i","tag-book-of-the-month","tag-book-review","tag-books","tag-crime-thriller","tag-dystopian","tag-dystopian-fiction","tag-dystopian-future","tag-future","tag-futuristic-technology","tag-john-marrs","tag-passengers","tag-psycological-thriller","tag-reading","tag-sci-fi-dystopia","tag-sci-fi-thriller","tag-self-driving-cars","tag-tense","tag-thought-provoking","tag-travel","tag-what-to-read-in-2025"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/onabreak.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1171.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onabreak.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onabreak.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onabreak.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onabreak.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onabreak.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/onabreak.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182498,"href":"https:\/\/onabreak.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1182498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onabreak.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onabreak.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onabreak.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onabreak.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}