She felt somewhat typical, and I feel the same about Cole as well. I liked Cat well enough, I was impressed with her fortitude, but I didn’t feel like there was anything new there. She’s also an excellent coder, and she’s not without friends, although they’re more like contacts and acquaintances then actual friends. She’s used to navigating the harshness of this new world on her own and seems very capable. She’s a young woman that has been living on her own on the outside since the virus hit several years before.
Maybe I’m a cynic, but that felt realistic to me.Įnter into this world, Catarina (Cat for short), our main protagonist. And that of course there are still greedy companies/governments in the world, even after an apocalyptic plague sweeps through humanity, that want to control who gets what. I found it intriguing the way that people have technology embedded within them and download apps to control certain things in their bodies, like vaccines for viruses and such. The setting is a near future Earth where humanity has learned to cover over our DNA to give us superficial makeovers (such as different hair type/color, different ear shapes, growing a cat-like tail, etc). Though, I did enjoy the book and will definitely be moving on to the sequel. I found this book pretty interesting in the setting and concepts, but a lot of the story and characters fell a bit flat to me. Now Cat must decide who she can trust: The soldier with secrets of his own? The father who made her promise to hide from Cartaxus at all costs? In a world where nature itself can be rewritten, how much can she even trust herself? But Cole also brings a message: before Lachlan died, he managed to create a vaccine, and Cole needs Cat’s help to release it and save the human race. When a Cartaxus soldier, Cole, arrives with news that her father has been killed, Cat’s instincts tell her it’s just another Cartaxus lie. But during the outbreak, Lachlan was kidnapped by a shadowy organization called Cartaxus, leaving Cat to survive the last two years on her own. Lachlan Agatta, a legendary geneticist who may be the last hope for defeating a plague that has brought humanity to the brink of extinction. That’s no surprise, since Cat’s father is Dr. And Cat happens to be a gene-hacking genius. In Cat’s world, people are implanted with technology to recode their DNA, allowing them to change their bodies in any way they want.
She can cripple mainframes and crash through firewalls, but that’s not what makes her special.
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