A review by thwipys
Upgrade by Blake Crouch

4.0

this was really fuuun but the epilogue had me like huuh? humanity is collapsing and the whole motivation of the mc was to prevent his sister from releasing a virus that would “upgrade” everyone (killing 13% but whatever) and there was a lot of great introspection concerning the future of humanity and the ethics of genetic editing to save lives….and then the solution was giving everyone a genetic upgrade anyway? albeit one that increases compassion, but it just felt really weird to end like that. “we cant let humanity be changed so im gonna change humanity”? but it was good otherwise :)

favorite line:

“‘If she’s not wrong about our impending extinction, what do we have to lose?’
[…]
‘Everything it means to be human.’”