A sequel to the memorable late-2000s YA thriller LITTLE BROTHER, 2013‘s HOMELAND remains just as prescient as its predecessor - but lacking in every other way. Doctorow‘s naive techno-Utopianism is full flag here, and while there is a lot of value in popular literature showing activism in a positive light and cops & corporations in an appropriately suspect one, this just doesn‘t work as a novel, right down to its completely flaccid ending.