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UnWorld
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Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for the E-ARC. 3.5 ⭐️
This literary sci-fi/dystopia imagines a world where you can upload your consciousness, which can then experience moments you aren’t physically present for via sensors and chips. Only, the Uploads have gained sentience, and some have gained “emancipation,� where they are cut off from their tether body.
The story is around the death of a boy named Alex, and cycles through the various beings that surrounded him in life, and up to his death.
I found a lot of the characters to read sort of the same. Which makes sense for some, but not for others. The demeanors described for some characters didn’t really gel with the internal monologue(s) they delivered. That said, I enjoyed the book and its cast (except maybe Rick but we never get in his head anyway).
It’s a story about how we carry grief and try to find meaning in death. About anxiety being mistaken for quirkiness in youth.
This literary sci-fi/dystopia imagines a world where you can upload your consciousness, which can then experience moments you aren’t physically present for via sensors and chips. Only, the Uploads have gained sentience, and some have gained “emancipation,� where they are cut off from their tether body.
The story is around the death of a boy named Alex, and cycles through the various beings that surrounded him in life, and up to his death.
I found a lot of the characters to read sort of the same. Which makes sense for some, but not for others. The demeanors described for some characters didn’t really gel with the internal monologue(s) they delivered. That said, I enjoyed the book and its cast (except maybe Rick but we never get in his head anyway).
It’s a story about how we carry grief and try to find meaning in death. About anxiety being mistaken for quirkiness in youth.
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