3.0
Implanted
ByPublisher Description
The data stored in her blood can save a city on the brink... or destroy it, in this gripping cyberpunk thriller
Shortlisted for the 2019 Compton Crook Award for best first Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Novel
When college student Emery Driscoll is blackmailed into being a courier for a clandestine organisation, she's cut off from the neural implant community which binds the domed city of New Worth together. Her new employers exploit her rare condition which allows her to carry encoded data in her blood, and train her to transport secrets throughout the troubled city. New Worth is on the brink of Emergence - freedom from the dome - but not everyone wants to leave. Then a data drop goes bad, and Emery is caught between factions: those who want her blood, and those who just want her dead.
2018 SFR Galaxy Award Winner — a “standout” book in Science Fiction Romance
File Under: Science Fiction [ Under the Dome | Blood Courier | Disconnected | Bright Future ]
Shortlisted for the 2019 Compton Crook Award for best first Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Novel
When college student Emery Driscoll is blackmailed into being a courier for a clandestine organisation, she's cut off from the neural implant community which binds the domed city of New Worth together. Her new employers exploit her rare condition which allows her to carry encoded data in her blood, and train her to transport secrets throughout the troubled city. New Worth is on the brink of Emergence - freedom from the dome - but not everyone wants to leave. Then a data drop goes bad, and Emery is caught between factions: those who want her blood, and those who just want her dead.
2018 SFR Galaxy Award Winner — a “standout” book in Science Fiction Romance
File Under: Science Fiction [ Under the Dome | Blood Courier | Disconnected | Bright Future ]
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“Finally finished it...very boring >_<”
“This is a book with a slow beginning and a slow ending. The middle, however, is a fun rush of action and intrigue. If you can deal with the plodding nature of it all at the start and end(not to mention the very cheese-laden romance part of it all) then this is an easy, quick and mostly enjoyable read. The biggest struggle I had with the book is the first-person present-tense writing. I know that is ALL THE RAGE right now in both fiction and non-fiction magazine writing but it’s an absolute mess to read and it was particularly hard in this book for some reason. I wish people would just stop that. It doesn’t lend any additional immediacy to the read. It’s confusing, difficult and off-putting. Another quick complain while I’m at it is the timeline in the book. Ok. The story takes place in the future but it is very unclear when. Several times the author/characters hint that the story takes place 2-3 generations after the whole world has to take shelter under giant domes because we’ve trashed the world so profoundly. Ok. I like the idea of the domes and the emergence but I kept getting “thrown out” of the story by the timeline. How could all of these technological advancements, constructions, social stratifications, etc take place I’m just 2-3 generations. Stun guns!? That was very confusing to me and impacted my enjoyment of the story. If she had put this 200-500 years in the future it would all make sense. As is, it hurts.
I loved the political, socio-economic intrigue and that social issues and questions of justice are at the heart of it. Very good. I think there could have been less romance and more politics!!
The implants themselves are one of the more intriguing parts of the books. How people augment themselves and gain constant and intrusive access to information and the inner workings of other people. It is very thought provoking. I know that, myself, as a hyper sensitive and easily overwhelmed introvert the constant connection and intrusion would send me to a nervous breakdown. I would HAVE to be part of the Disconnects. But is that fair? Is it fair that people who don’t want the implants or CANT have them are relegated to a cheaper and more fragile existence? The author does get at this question of justice. I think she could have gone further.
All in all this is an easy, quick and mostly enjoyable book. It for sure has some major faults but it’s an excellent first effort and I would read this author again.”
About Lauren C. Teffeau
LAUREN C TEFFEAU was born and raised on the East Coast, educated in the South, and employed in the Midwest. Lauren now lives and dreams in the southwestern United States. When she was younger, she poked around in the back of wardrobes, tried to walk through mirrors, and always kept an eye out for secret passages, fairy rings, and messages from aliens. Now, she writes to cope with her ordinary existence. Blood Courier is her first novel.
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