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The Family Experiment

John Marrs

4.08 AVERAGE

dark reflective sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark sad tense fast-paced

🤖 metaverse thriller
🤖 soooo many characters
🤖 kinda confusing 
🤖 ai children’s rights
adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I simply devoured this book! Reality TV competition set in the future (the same world as The One by John Marrs which I also really enjoyed), pitting parents against each other to raise an AI child? Say less!!

This was book utterly addictive, full of morally grey characters and twists and turns. I absolutely ate it up! It is so original and actually, kind of horrifyingly, I can almost imagine something akin to this really happening in real life.

If you love reality tv, The Sims, or even just creepy AI futuristic possibilities… you have to pick this one up when it is released next month!

John Marrs continues to be an auto-buy author and I’m very grateful to him and his team at Pan MacMillan as well as netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read an eARC of this in exchange for an honest review!
challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This was crazy and disturbing in the best possible way. I can absolutely see society heading this way in the not so far off future. This was really fun and exciting. Highly recommend!
mysterious reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated