The Transhuman Project
Erin Rhew
Publication date: January 15th 2019
Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult
When a video of Molly Richards is taken out of context and goes viral, she’s thrust into the upper echelons of social media stardom and becomes an overnight success in a country where Life Channel ratings reign supreme. As Kadar’s fastest rising celebrity, her life becomes a media circus, a show put on for the shallow national audience salivating for the next new thing.
But in a world where image is king, danger and death hide among the shadows. In the nearby country of Pacifica, the brutal Caezar turns his citizens into robotic weapons who infiltrate Kadar as sleeper transhumans. They walk among the populace, unaware they are pawns in the madman’s personal arsenal.
Only Molly, her friends, and an elite group of Kadarian fighters known as the Cyber Knights fully understand the transhuman threat, and only they can break the Caezar’s terrorist grip on both Pacifica and Kadar. Battling Fire Bots and humanoid agents, they seek to put a stop to the Caezar’s tyranny by unraveling the secrets buried between layers of deception.And they have to do it all while smiling and waving for the cameras.
As Molly and her friends peer behind the glitz and glamour, they discover something more frightening and more sinister than anything they’ve encountered yet…the truth.
My Review:
Social media has become more popular than ever. All anyone
wants to do is set before their TV or devices and get into their neighbor’s
business leaving no one’s life private anymore but if said person puts their
whole life out there for anyone who wishes to see to look at then it is no
longer private and they Undoubtedly want everyone to know their business.
A video of a young girl Molly goes viral and the next thing
she knows she is an overnight success and she now has her own Life Channel
where everyone can see her life playing out right before their eyes day after
day. Molly and her friends have been swept away to this life, a life that they
want no part of but were not given a choice.
Molly doesn’t want her life on display for everyone to see
but she has no choice but to play along for now. Most people are thrilled to
have their life splashed across the internet and be the star. Molly is followed
around with video cameras wherever she goes recording her life.
Although this is live reality TV where their real life is
being recorded and they have no script to follow there are certain things and
rules that they have to follow and pretend to be someone or something they are
not. It may be live TV but their lives are fake.
In the outside world the Caezar is turning humans into
robotic weapons that are called Transhuman. The average person like Molly and
her friends have no way of knowing who has been changed and who has not. They
get word that the Caezar has planted a Transhuman in to their world at the Life
Channel and now they must find out who it is before it is awakens and puts
everyone in danger.
Molly and her friends are the only people they can rely on
to help them stop the Caezar from turning humans. They have only have a short
window of time to stop him and are racing against the clock to stop the Caezar
before he can implement his plan.
The Transhuman Project will pull you into its world and have
you racing through the pages wondering what is going to happen next and how it
all is going to end.
Do I recommend The Transhuman Project? Well of course I do
as it filled with mystery and suspense with a group of people who care more for
each other than they ever knew or knew they were capable of doing.
Author Bio:
Erin Rhew is an editor, the operations manager for a small press, and a YA fantasy and sci-fi author. Since she picked up Morris the Moose Goes to School at age four, she has been infatuated with the written word. She went on to work as a grammar and writing tutor in college and is still teased by her family and friends for being a member of the "Grammar Police."
A Southern girl by blood and birth, Erin spent years in a rainy pocket of the Pacific Northwest before returning to her roots in the land of hushpuppies, sweet tea, and pig pickin’. She’s married to fellow author, the amazingly talented (and totally handsome) Deek Rhew, and spends her time writing side-by-side with him under the watchful eye of their patient-as-a-saint writing assistant, a tabby cat named Trinity. Erin and Deek enjoy taking long walks, drinking coffee, lifting, boxing, eating pizza, staying up late into the night talking, and adventuring together.
1 comments:
The world building in this sounds so entertaining and unique! Great review! :)
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