Aaru by David Meredith

                                                                             

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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.

Thank you to the author for sending me this book.

As I was reading this book I started to fall in love with Rose so when she dies I cried (why did you have to make me like her!) Her character was developed so well I couldn’t believe how well she was, Rose knows she is going to die and she is 100% okay with it but no one in her family is. I think the fact that she was okay with it helped me through the part but then when it happen, well, forget it.

Everyone in her family handled her death differently but when it came to her little sister well, let me say this, it was the most realistic death handling (didn’t know how to say that) I had connected with her sister on a bigger level than I usually have with any book. I loved the relationship between the sister’s, even though at some points it seemed dry and dual I still love those moments.

There are things I want to talk about but it would spoil this book so All I am going to say is I really liked this book, I think it is great the only thing I didn’t like was the fact that it was slow at some times. But David Meredith uses a lot of detail in his this book that makes the characters and world come alive. The flow of the writing is intriguing, and I can’t wait for book two!

Rating:4/5

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