Title: AARU
By: David Meredith
Genre: Urban Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Pages: 305
Release Date: July 9th, 2017
Publisher:
Audience: Adult
Summary from Goodreads:
-Friedrich Nietzsche Rose is dying. Her body is wasted and skeletal. She is too sick and weak to move. Every day is an agony and her only hope is that death will find her swiftly before the pain grows too great to bear.
She is sixteen years old.
Rose has made peace with her fate, but her younger sister, Koren, certainly has not. Though all hope appears lost Koren convinces Rose to make one final attempt at saving her life after a mysterious man in a white lab coat approaches their family about an unorthodox and experimental procedure. A copy of Rose’s radiant mind is uploaded to a massive super computer called Aaru – a virtual paradise where the great and the righteous might live forever in an arcadian world free from pain, illness, and death. Elysian Industries is set to begin offering the service to those who can afford it and hires Koren to be their spokes-model.
Within a matter of weeks, the sisters’ faces are nationally ubiquitous, but they soon discover that neither celebrity nor immortality is as utopian as they think. Not everyone is pleased with the idea of life everlasting for sale.
What unfolds is a whirlwind of controversy, sabotage, obsession, and danger. Rose and Koren must struggle to find meaning in their chaotic new lives and at the same time hold true to each other as Aaru challenges all they ever knew about life, love, and death and everything they thought they really believed.
Review: There is nothing like a good out of body experience to start your day. I really was intrigued by the whole concept of uploading the mind into a super computer and living forever. The whole world, description and people were great. I wish the beginning was longer and had more of Rose's story as she was transferred into the virtual world. Everything seems great at this point until the world turns upside down and people start turning on the sisters.
I was enamored with the story from start to finish. A wonderful summer read.
Received an
advance reader copy in exchange for a fair review.
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