The Legacy Human
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Series: Singularity
Publisher: Self
Pages: 412
Release date: 2nd March 2015
Synopsis (Goodreads)
Spiritual successor to the
bestselling Mindjack trilogy…
When transcending humanity is the prize, winning the Game is all that matters.
Seventeen-year-old Elijah Brighton wants to become an ascender—a post-Singularity human/machine hybrid—after all, they’re smarter, more enlightened, more compassionate, and above all, achingly beautiful. But Eli is a legacy human, preserved and cherished for his unaltered genetic code, just like the rainforest he paints. When a fugue state possesses him and creates great art, Eli miraculously lands a sponsor for the creative Olympics. If he could just master the fugue, he could take the gold and win the right to ascend, bringing everything he’s yearned for within reach… including his beautiful ascender patron. But once Eli arrives at the Games, he finds the ascenders are playing games of their own. Everything he knows about the ascenders and the legacies they keep starts to unravel… until he’s running for his life and wondering who he truly is.
The Legacy Human is the first in a new young adult science fiction series that explores the intersection of mind, body, and soul… and how technology will challenge us to remember what it means to be human.
When transcending humanity is the prize, winning the Game is all that matters.
Seventeen-year-old Elijah Brighton wants to become an ascender—a post-Singularity human/machine hybrid—after all, they’re smarter, more enlightened, more compassionate, and above all, achingly beautiful. But Eli is a legacy human, preserved and cherished for his unaltered genetic code, just like the rainforest he paints. When a fugue state possesses him and creates great art, Eli miraculously lands a sponsor for the creative Olympics. If he could just master the fugue, he could take the gold and win the right to ascend, bringing everything he’s yearned for within reach… including his beautiful ascender patron. But once Eli arrives at the Games, he finds the ascenders are playing games of their own. Everything he knows about the ascenders and the legacies they keep starts to unravel… until he’s running for his life and wondering who he truly is.
The Legacy Human is the first in a new young adult science fiction series that explores the intersection of mind, body, and soul… and how technology will challenge us to remember what it means to be human.
Review: 3 ½ out of 5 stars
First things first! How awesome is the cover, I absolutely love it and it suits the story within perfectly.
The Legacy Human is the first book in the Singularity series and unfortunately started off quite slowly for
me so I originally put it aside and started it again recently when my mood
suited which I’m pleased I did because it is an interesting, creative world
Susan Kaye Quinn has created.
Seventeen-year-old Elijah Brighton is a legacy
human, kept because of his genetic code, he is fiercely loyal and has a passion
for art. His dream is to become an Ascender so that he can possibly get the
medical assistance that his ill mother urgently needs. Eli was a great
character, I usually like my male leads with a little bit more self-assurance
and strength but what I felt he lacked here he made up for with intelligence
and devotion. There is also something a little ‘different’ about Eli that was
hinted at in the beginning that I was quite eager to learn more about, I found
this aspect interesting and was explained well.
When Eli is given an opportunity to
compete in the creative Olympics, he is more than willing despite the fiercely
competitive opponents, as well as political games from the Ascenders. The plot
is original and thought-provoking, what started as a slow paced read for me
picked up and kept me thoroughly entertained.
The richly detailed world Susan Kaye Quinn
has built is imaginative, intense and unique, I enjoy a good sci-fi dystopian, the Ascenders who are part human part machine are now
the dominant species and the humans are more or less their slaves, the Olympics
that the Ascenders held were competitive and thrilling.
All of the side characters were
interesting and played an important role overall, I found the Ascenders and
their unusual ways to be interesting but I never quite knew whether or not they
could be trusted. I loved the friendship Eli shared with Cyrus.
Susan Kaye Quinn’s writing is crisp and
engaging, the world-building is unique and the plot once it took off became an
action filled adventure. The Legacy
Human is a nice start to this futuristic dystopian series.
About
the author:
YOUNG
ADULT SCIENCE FICTION
Singularity Series
The Legacy Human (Singularity 1)
Mindjack Saga
Open Minds (Mindjack #1)
Closed Hearts (Mindjack #2)
Free Souls (Mindjack #3)
WATCH the award-winning live-action Mindjack Book Trailer!
STEAMPUNK FANTASY ROMANCE
Third Daughter (The Dharian Affairs #1)
Second Daughter (The Dharian Affairs #2)
First Daughter (The Dharian Affairs #3)
ADULT URBAN FANTASY WITH A CYBERPUNK TWIST
Debt Collector Season One
Debt Collector Season Two
WATCH the Debt Collector Book Trailer
ANTHOLOGIES
Synchronic-13 Tales of Time Travel
Telepath Chronicles-Stories of Mind-Bending Awesome
AI Chronicles
MIDDLE GRADE
Faery Swap
WATCH the Faery Swap Book Trailer
Susan Kaye Quinn grew up in California, where she wrote snippets of stories and passed them to her friends during class. Her teachers pretended not to notice and only confiscated her stories a couple times.
Singularity Series
The Legacy Human (Singularity 1)
Mindjack Saga
Open Minds (Mindjack #1)
Closed Hearts (Mindjack #2)
Free Souls (Mindjack #3)
WATCH the award-winning live-action Mindjack Book Trailer!
STEAMPUNK FANTASY ROMANCE
Third Daughter (The Dharian Affairs #1)
Second Daughter (The Dharian Affairs #2)
First Daughter (The Dharian Affairs #3)
ADULT URBAN FANTASY WITH A CYBERPUNK TWIST
Debt Collector Season One
Debt Collector Season Two
WATCH the Debt Collector Book Trailer
ANTHOLOGIES
Synchronic-13 Tales of Time Travel
Telepath Chronicles-Stories of Mind-Bending Awesome
AI Chronicles
MIDDLE GRADE
Faery Swap
WATCH the Faery Swap Book Trailer
Susan Kaye Quinn grew up in California, where she wrote snippets of stories and passed them to her friends during class. Her teachers pretended not to notice and only confiscated her stories a couple times.
Susan left writing behind to pursue a
bunch of engineering degrees, but she was drawn back to writing by an irresistible
urge to share her stories with her niece, her kids, and all the wonderful
friends she’s met along the way.
She doesn’t have to sneak her notes anymore, which is too bad.
Susan writes from the Chicago suburbs with her three boys, two cats, and one husband. Which, it turns out, is exactly as a much as she can handle.
CONTACT SUSAN
Susan's Website/Blog | Susan's twitter | Susan's Facebook Page
Susan's Email: susankayequinn@comcast.net
She doesn’t have to sneak her notes anymore, which is too bad.
Susan writes from the Chicago suburbs with her three boys, two cats, and one husband. Which, it turns out, is exactly as a much as she can handle.
CONTACT SUSAN
Susan's Website/Blog | Susan's twitter | Susan's Facebook Page
Susan's Email: susankayequinn@comcast.net
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details etc. have been copied from GoodReads
The world sounds interesting and agree the cover is cool. I will be anxious to see your thoughts on book two
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree about the cover! And the synopsis makes it sound like a pretty unique book - I can't say I've heard anything like that before!
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