Feed

Anderson, M.T. (2002). Feed. Masschusetts: Candlewick Press.

Titus and his friends go to the Moon, he meets Violet and then things go wrong.  They get touched by this strange man and it corrupts their feeds.  Titus and Violet start a relationship.  She is different than his friends and she is getting him to talk and not just communicate through his feed.  Things are going great until he finds out that her feed is malfunctioning and it could kill her.  He deals with it until it starts to overwhelm him.  She starts to have more and more problems.  They fight and he moves on with his life until her father sends him a message.  He does to see her and she is trapped in her body unable to communicate or move. 

The thought of this book really happening is frightening.  It makes me think of The Knife of Never Letting Go and how they can hear other's thoughts.  Computers and software are known to break down and this is just scary that it would be interfaced with your brain and body functions. 

The setting to this book is pivotal.  It would not work being in any other setting.  It's based in the future and the imagery that Anderson uses allows you to believe that this could actually happen.