Poolside Reading
Thank you, Random House Publishing, for this gifted copy.
It’s the weekend, it’s sunny, and it’s in the 70s instead of 90s! Could it get any better!?! Yes it can, because our new lawn mower finally arrived at Home Depot and I’m picking it up today. Our last one died two weeks ago, so you can only imagine the jungle our front and back yard have turned into. Well, the dogs are enjoying it since they can hide in the tall grass and then pounce on each other 😂
📚Today I’m heading to the pool and taking my latest buddy read, Upgrade, with @mamas_top_shelf 😎 Science fiction is a genre I tend to avoid, but everyone has raves about Crouch and his previous publications so I knew I had to jump on the bandwagon. I was even able to sneak in a few pages this morning, and I’m already hooked!
💬 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐢𝐧?
AOTD: I think it was a little over two years ago😫
𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: At first, Logan Ramsay isn’t sure if anything’s different. He just feels a little . . . sharper. Better able to concentrate. Better at multitasking. Reading a bit faster, memorizing better, needing less sleep.
But before long, he can’t deny it: Something’s happening to his brain. To his body. He’s starting to see the world, and those around him—even those he loves most—in whole new ways.
The truth is, Logan’s genome has been hacked. And there’s a reason he’s been targeted for this upgrade. A reason that goes back decades to the darkest part of his past, and a horrific family legacy.
Worse still, what’s happening to him is just the first step in a much larger plan, one that will inflict the same changes on humanity at large—at a terrifying cost.
Because of his new abilities, Logan’s the one person in the world capable of stopping what’s been set in motion. But to have a chance at winning this war, he’ll have to become something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human.
And even as he’s fighting, he can’t help wondering: what if humanity’s only hope for a future really does lie in engineering our own evolution?
