ANYONE BY CHARLES SOULE

5 STARS ONE OF MY FAVORITES OF THE YEAR!


This sci-fi story, just published on 12/3 (get it immediately) should be voted BEST sci-fi/thriller of the year! I am even putting it above Recursion by Blake Crouch and I also loved that book! If you loved Recursion or Dark Matter, I think you should read this book immediately!!! One of my all-time favorite stories and here's why:

I love the idea of being able to be "anyone" - and this book is set in a future where that can happen via transference of your "consciousness" into another body altogether. The book "flashes" (lol) back and forth as the technology is being created by Gabby White (present time) who goes through hell to bring her invention to the world, and also the "future day" through a young woman named Annami, who is an ex-employee of the company that runs the flash world wide, who is trying to take it down for abuses beyond anyone's imagination.

The whole premise of being able to switch bodies, is so amazing. Think of being able to flash into another person who is on the opposite side of the world? Someone completely different from you; someone of a different sex, age, race, economic class, etc?? !! The book definitely discusses Gabby's hope for her invention to teach the world to truly SEE one another for what we are, not what we look like. Imagine not being able to judge someone on their looks anymore, Gabby muses. It would be a world changing event! But just as she knows the many ways it can be used for positive change, she also knows the secrets of the company that runs it.

This book had me turning pages until very late last night. I could not put it down. Such a well written story with characters that are so many moral shades of gray, a storying plot that has you racing through chapters to find out what happens next as each character's perspectives endure horrific things to bring their goals to fruition.

I see all you other bookstagrammers out there with this book! Get to reading people! This book is fantastic!