Book Review - Reality Testing by Grant Price

 

What’s Real?

A question we often ask ourselves, more so after the advent of the Internet and Social Media.

Filtering out to get to the truth,we often rely on people we trust.

And the person we trust the most for the truth...is us.

So what happens when we don’t know if we are REAL?

Reality Testing by Grant Price is a dystopian tale, a murder mystery, a thriller and a hard look at where we are headed in the not too distant future.

This tale is set in a world collapsing under climate crisis, where megalomaniacs are coming up with a way for men to reproduce ‘perfect’ offspring and women are called “obsul” because they are on the way to be obsolete.

One of these “obsuls” is Mara Kinzig and Reality Testing is her tale.

Mara wakes up one night from an extended sleep in a dreamtank to a nightmare on the ground. A dead body on the floor and a body that is not her own.

Here on begins Mara’s quest to find reality.

Who is she?

Where is her body?

Who is the ‘other’ voice in her head?

This search for answers leads Mara from the dusty and wild Berlin underground, towards a foreign legion, the Vanguard  for hopes of salvation.

Pneumatic trains, augmented people and robotic bulls that can annihilate you in the blink of an eye, every second of Mara’s journey is super action packed.

Price has created a virtual cornucopia that rings a huge bell in our minds, warning us of the consequences of our actions not just on the climatic front but also with Technology and Artificial Intelligence. About humanity’s constant intervention and destruction of the things around us, as we move to become perfect, efficient and ‘GOD’-like.

As Mara battles her inner and external demons we get to see a future that looks freakishly real and one that could be coming our way very soon. SCARY.

A book that will leave you questioning reality and humanity.

 

So glad that I got this RC, it sparked a lot of questions and was an eye-opening read. Hope you liked my fair and honest review.

Happy Reading☺