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If In 2031, genetic engineering and robotics is changing the game wasn’t fair world at an unprecedented rate, with a regimen known as Revision making people stronger, faster and smarter than ever before. Baseline humanity is slowly being rendered obsolete, it’s definitely not fair now. Or so thinks with people like 16-year-old Dorian Waters, part of being left by the ever-expanding portion of humanity who can’t afford wayside as these new superhumans dominate the nano-implant and genetic augmentation regimen known as Revisionworkforce. And because he can’t afford Without Revision, he can’t get into college. He can’t Dorian can't go to University and can't get a job. And when he sees the brilliant and mesmerizing Lena for the first timeso begins Dorian's slow spiral of self-destruction, he knows he doesn’t have a chance with her, either. Feeling thoroughly lost and exasperated, Dorian robs a house robbing houses with his best friendEthan to pay for his Revision, Ethan. Then they do it again. It’s thrilling and terrifying and deeply unsettling. But since they take so little each all the time that their targets don’t notice, they’re able desperately trying to keep at it until they have enough money saved upthis activity secret from his family. Once they do their first RevisionBut, their initial choices in self-enhancement start impacting their future choiceswith his psychopathic brother already suspicious of him and the police gaining ground, which in turn impact their future Revision––on and on in a downwards spiral of self-destruction. Dorian desperately wants slowly begins to slow things down and figure out the kind of person realise that he really wants 's going to be, but with the police one step behind them and a contentious relationship with his brother, Jaden, threatening have to unravel risk everything, it’s the expedient choices that he’s finding himself more and more compelled to makestay ahead...
Our protagonist and narrator is Dorian, a high-school student who turns to housebreaking with his best friend Ethan in order to pay for his Revisions. Part of me really does want to sympathise with Dorian, and he's not without sympathetic qualities, but at the same time his extreme self-centeredness, tendency to blame all his problems on society, obsessive stalking of Lena, and his looking down on others as being stupid make him quite hard to like at times. Ethan isn’t much better, being a cowardly, depressed drug addict who also only thinks about himself. Dorian’s brother Jaden, an undiagnosed psychopath, is a source of constant conflict with Dorian, constantly poking and prodding and making their parents suspicious. It’s certainly brave of Graves to try to write a story with normally unlikeable characters, but Dorian and Ethan may be on their way to redeeming themselves by the end of the book.
[[Neuromancer by William Gibson|Neuromancer by William Gibson]] – a classic piece of cyberpunk fiction for adult readers, with a similarly struggling protagonist.
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