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A review by billblume
This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada
5.0
This is one of my top three reads of the year. In fact, it’s probably my favorite YA novel this year. Emily Suvada has crafted a well-written thrill ride that subverts a lot of tropes. It’s an intelligent sci-fi conspiracy thriller.
The world-building is brilliantly executed. This Mortal Coil is The Walking Dead meets Jason Bourne sprinkled with a sci-fi twist on Daughter of Smoke & Bone. Emily Suvada manages to take all the best parts of those stories and creates an amazing look at what our world would be like if we could tweak our bodies to our every whim.
The book challenges the reader with a lot of questions that are all born from how much genetics dictates who and what we are and will become. Just as important, should we be allowed to tinker with what nature has made us.
The biggest praise I can give This Mortal Coil is that it’s the kind of book I want to shove into other people’s hands so they’ll read it.
The world-building is brilliantly executed. This Mortal Coil is The Walking Dead meets Jason Bourne sprinkled with a sci-fi twist on Daughter of Smoke & Bone. Emily Suvada manages to take all the best parts of those stories and creates an amazing look at what our world would be like if we could tweak our bodies to our every whim.
The book challenges the reader with a lot of questions that are all born from how much genetics dictates who and what we are and will become. Just as important, should we be allowed to tinker with what nature has made us.
The biggest praise I can give This Mortal Coil is that it’s the kind of book I want to shove into other people’s hands so they’ll read it.