Review:
I loved how this book flowed throughout. You gain a full picture of each of the main characters and how their lives are intertwined. Elijah Brighton, the main character, loves his mother and would do anything to save her from the disease ravaging her body.
The in-depth look at immortality as an ascender will have you choosing a side within the first few chapters. Would you want to be an ascender or a dissenter?
I got the book at Amazon here.
Description:
What would you give to live forever?
Seventeen-year-old Elijah Brighton wants to become an ascender--a post-Singularity human/machine hybrid--after all, they're smarter, more enlightened, more compassionate, and above all, achingly beautiful. But Eli is a legacy human, preserved and cherished for his unaltered genetic code, just like the rainforest he paints. When a fugue state possesses him and creates great art, Eli miraculously lands a sponsor for the creative Olympics. If he could just master the fugue, he could take the gold and win the right to ascend, bringing everything he's yearned for within reach... including his beautiful ascender patron. But once Eli arrives at the Games, he finds the ascenders are playing games of their own. Everything he knows about the ascenders and the legacies they keep starts to unravel... until he's running for his life and wondering who he truly is.
When immortality is the prize, winning the Game is all that matters.
The Legacy Human is the first in Susan Kaye Quinn's new young adult science fiction series that explores the intersection of mind, body, and soul in a post-Singularity world... and how technology will challenge us to remember what it means to be human.
Final Thoughts:
I would highly recommend this book, especially if you liked either The Hunger Games or Divergent. This book is definitely one I will reread and keep on the shelf for 4-H Girl when she gets a little older. I can't wait to see what Susan Kaye Quinn has in mind for the next book.
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