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Thanks to Netgalleyfor the ARC! With AI such a right now topic, I was sucked in by the premise for this book. There are self-driving cars and “uploads,�� which are like AI chip beings people can purchase and have help make their lives easier. I’m not completely sure I understand how they work, but I could see this being a real thing in the future. Anna has an upload named Aviva by her son that actually some how leaves her and finds another person, Cathy, who has been waiting for a free upload to discover her. This part of the story alone really interested me but also confused me as the way it was all happening wasn’t really clear. Then add to that Anna and Rick’s son Alex inexplicably falling to his death in front of his best friend Sam. No one seems to know if he fell or jumped, but Aviva has asked to remove herself from Anna shortly after. Everyone is grieving, and it all seems to venter around the rights and involvement of uploads. While the AI aspect and characters in here were interesting (i could truly picture Alex and grieve for him because i have known kids in my teaching career who were similar), I felt the story fell a little short as there were too many questions left unanswered and too many blurry areas of how all this AI and uploading stuff works. Overall, it was an interesting read, but I’d rather read it once it has been workshopped more to fill up the gray and empty areas FYI some profanity, talk of drug use and alcohol use/addiction in adults and teens, some sexual references (that seemed oddly timed and no necessarily needed)