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Bezig met laden... Program 13 (The Emile Reed Chronicles)door Nicole Sobon
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Emile is walking home one day when she is struck down by a car and killed by Vesta Life employees. They take her body back to the facility and place wires and computers inside, so that she looks like a human on the outside, but is machine on the inside. With the help of her brother, she escapes Vesta Life and tries to survive on the run. I liked the premise of this book, but there were a few things that completely threw me off. The characters, for one, don't ring true. When Emile runs away, she bumps into (almost literally) a boy named Colton, who is standing in the middle of the road, about to give up his life. She feels sorry for him and takes him with her to her new safehouse. I found Colton's reasons for being suicidal a little shaky, and his personality and situation just doesn't seem desperate enough to drive him to take his own life. (And his choice of suicide is being run over by a car? Really? But that's another matter.) They also laugh and smirk during situations where it seems inappropriate (to me, at least). And not the I-laugh-in-the-face-of-danger kind of laugh, but a weird, almost creepy laugh. For example, Colton laughs after telling Emile he cleaned up most of the mess after killing a couple of Vesta Life employees, and almost immediately afterwards his eyes light up in horror after discovering that he forgot to clean and hide the knife. That's weird, right? A lot of these people are quick to cry, too. I can't even remember how many times I read the phrase "so-and-so's eyes filled with tears". I'm curious about how the people are able to put previous personalities onto hard drives. I don't understand how they're able to make the transition from a human mind to a computer program, and it seems a little too hard to believe. Barring that leap of logic, I liked the struggle between Emile and Thirteen, but in the end the weak characters prevented me from liking this book. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Program 13 (1)
Two identities. One Body. 17-year-old Emile Reed, may have died, but she isn't dead. Her body now belongs to Program Thirteen, where her every thought, every movement, is controlled. Until Emile begins to find her way back inside of Thirteen's core, where she manages to fend off Thirteen's programming to reclaim the life that she lost. But Charles McVeigh, the owner of Vesta Corp, isn't willing to let Thirteen go. And he will stop at nothing to reclaim control of Thirteen's programming. Because without her, McVeigh has nothing. What makes you human? THE EMILE REED CHRONICLES: Program 12: Short Story Prequel (Free) Program 13: Book One Allegiance: Novelette Deprogrammed: Book Two (May 2013) Standby: Short Story (2013) Rebooted: Book Three (2013) New Beginnings: Novelette (2013) Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Having said all of that, the book was free, and I was attached enough to the Colton and Hayden characters to pay $5 for the entire series including those (in my opinion) ridiculous mini books (1.5, 2.5 and the like) so it gets two stars rather than one. I'm not sure when I'll get around to reading on though. I don't find the idea all that appealing just now. But, Sobon got my five bucks, so she should feel good about that. ( )