[Livro] Artificial, de Jadah McCoy

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Série: The Kepler Chronicles #1
Autor(a): Jadah McCoy
Editora: Curiosity Quills
Páginas: 226
Data de Lançamento: 04 de Abril de 2016

Sinopse:

She struggles to feel human.

In 2256, the only remnants of civilization on Earth’s first colonized planet, Kepler, are the plant-covered buildings and the nocturnal, genetically spliced bug-people nesting within them: the Cull. During the day, Syl leaves her home in the sewers beneath Elite City to scavenge for food, but at night the Cull come looking for a meal of their own. Syl thought gene splicing died with the Android War a century ago. She thought the bugs could be exterminated, Elite city rebuilt, and the population replenished. She’s wrong.

Whoever engineered the Cull isn’t done playing God. Syl is abducted and tortured in horrific experiments which result in her own DNA being spliced, slowly turning her into one of the bugs. Now she must find a cure and stop the person responsible before every remaining man, woman, and child on Kepler is transformed into the abomination they fear.

He struggles not to.

For Bastion, being an android in the sex industry isn’t so bad. Clubbing beneath the streets of New Elite by day and seducing the rich by night isn’t an altogether undesirable occupation. But every day a new android cadaver appears in the slum gutters, and each caved in metal skull and heap of mangled wires whittles away at him.

Glitches—androids with empathy—are being murdered, their models discontinued and strung up as a warning. Show emotion, you die. Good thing Bastion can keep a secret, or he would be the next body lining the street.

He can almost live with hiding his emotions. That is, until a girl shows up in the slums—a human girl, who claims she was an experiment. And in New Elite, being a human is even worse than being a Glitch. Now Bastion must help the girl escape before he becomes victim to his too-human emotions, one way or another.

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Opinião:
Este é um livro bastante bom. Eu não estava à espera de gostar tanto. Bom trabalho, Jadah McCoy!

Artificial é o primeiro livro de uma estória distópica; a Terra como nós a conhecemos não existe. Humanos criaram os androids, que por sua vez evoluíram e nos ultrapassaram, criando algo para destruir-nos como uma praga. Sylvia, ou Syl, é humana e vive nos esgotos com os outros humanos – a que chamam a “cidade” de Elite. Eles caçam durante o dia, e escondem-se nos esgotos à noite, fugindo dos Cull – algo semelhante a insecto, meio-humano-meio-qualquer coisa estranha, criada pelos androids para matarem os humanos. É uma morte horrível.

O que a Syl não sabe é que existe uma outra cidade – chamada de New Elite – onde os androids vivem “pacatamente”. Se um android tem sentimentos é chamado de Glitche, e supostamente devem ser destruídos, tal como qualquer simpatizante dos humanos. Syl é capturada e levada para New Elite, onde lhe fazem várias experiencias. Ela não sabe o que lhe fizeram e precisa de ajuda. A única coisa que sabe é que não pode voltar para Elite e viver com os outros humanos, porque ela pode se tornar num desses Cull e matar toda a gente. Em New Elite, ela conhece B4st10n – ou Bastion – um Glitche.

Eu não vou avançar mais em relação ao plot. Terão que o ler e se sentirem envoltos nesta estória fantástica. É bastante cativante, e faz-nos querer continuar a ler e descobrir o que mais irá acontecer a Syl, e se ela será capaz de resolver as coisas. Eu quero muiiiiito continuar a seguir esta estória!

Title: Artificial
Serie: The Kepler Chronicles #1
Author: Jadah McCoy
Publisher: Curiosity Quills
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 4th April 2016

Synopsis:

She struggles to feel human.

In 2256, the only remnants of civilization on Earth’s first colonized planet, Kepler, are the plant-covered buildings and the nocturnal, genetically spliced bug-people nesting within them: the Cull. During the day, Syl leaves her home in the sewers beneath Elite City to scavenge for food, but at night the Cull come looking for a meal of their own. Syl thought gene splicing died with the Android War a century ago. She thought the bugs could be exterminated, Elite city rebuilt, and the population replenished. She’s wrong.

Whoever engineered the Cull isn’t done playing God. Syl is abducted and tortured in horrific experiments which result in her own DNA being spliced, slowly turning her into one of the bugs. Now she must find a cure and stop the person responsible before every remaining man, woman, and child on Kepler is transformed into the abomination they fear.

He struggles not to.

For Bastion, being an android in the sex industry isn’t so bad. Clubbing beneath the streets of New Elite by day and seducing the rich by night isn’t an altogether undesirable occupation. But every day a new android cadaver appears in the slum gutters, and each caved in metal skull and heap of mangled wires whittles away at him.

Glitches—androids with empathy—are being murdered, their models discontinued and strung up as a warning. Show emotion, you die. Good thing Bastion can keep a secret, or he would be the next body lining the street.

He can almost live with hiding his emotions. That is, until a girl shows up in the slums—a human girl, who claims she was an experiment. And in New Elite, being a human is even worse than being a Glitch. Now Bastion must help the girl escape before he becomes victim to his too-human emotions, one way or another.

~ We received a digital arc from the publisher Curiosity Quills. Thank you! ~ ~

Review:
This is a really good book. I wasn’t expecting to enjoy it so much. Good Job, Jadah McCoy!

Artificial is the first instalment of a dystopian story; Earth as we know now doesn’t exist. Humans had created android, but those androids had evolved and surpass us, creating something to destroy us like a plague. Sylvia, or Syl, is human and lives in the sewers – they call it, Elite – with the other humans. They hunt by day, and hide in the sewers by night, running away from The Cull – something kind of bug, half-human-half-something created by the android to kill humans. It’s a horrific death.

What didn’t Syl know was that there was another city – called New Elite – where the androids lived in “peace”. If an android had feeling it was called a Glitch, and was supposed to be destroyed, as any the Human-Sympathisers. Syl is captured and taken to New elite, where she’s experimented on. She doesn’t know what was done to here and she needs help. The only thing she knows is that she can’t go back to Elite, and live with the other humans, because we might turn into one of those Culls and kill everyone. In New Elite she meets B4st10n – or Bastion – a Glitch.

I’ll not say anything else about the plot. You’ll have to read it and be immerse into this awesome story. It’s a quite captivating story and you just want to keep reading to discover what else can happen to Syl, and if she’s going to make it. I’m totally in for the next books!

SOBRE A AUTORA/ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Jadah currently lives in Nashville, TN and works as a legal coordinator. When not babysitting attorneys, she can be found juicing her brain for creative ideas or fantasizing about her next trip out of the country (or about Tom Hiddleston as Loki - it’s always a toss up when she fantasizes.)

She grew up in rural Arkansas, yet can still write good and sometimes even wears shoes! She did date her first cousin for a while but they decided against marriage for the sake of the gene pool. 

Her true loves are elephants, cursing, and sangria - in that order. If you find an elephant that curses like a sailor whilst drinking sangria, you’re dangerously close to becoming her next romantic victim - er, partner. 

She cut her writing teeth on badly written, hormone-driven fanfiction (be glad that’s out of her system), and her one true dream is to have wildly erotic fanfiction with dubious grammar written about her own novels. Please make her dreams come true.

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