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mkpollard 's review for:
Every Version of You
by Grace Chan
challenging
emotional
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:
No
Every Version of You is a beautiful, sentimental and deeply emotional look at what it means to really exist. Like the Ship of Theseus, Grace Chan asks how much you can change before you are no longer yourself, or the person your partner fell in love with.
Tao-Yi is never a luddite, and never anti-technology, which makes her journey and her ultimate decision that much more real and understandable. The value of the promise she made to her mother is really kept throughout the story, sometimes at great personal cost to Tao-Yi.
Watching the distance slowly grow, almost unobserved between her and Navin was masterfully done. An ever-growing elephant in the room, until there wasn’t so much a gap, but more a chasm between them.
Of all the supporting characters, I found those who chose to remain the most compelling. Uploading is not a technology I think would be for me, and I found them kindred spirits in that sense. Is a ‘miracle’ truly a miracle if it still excludes those traditionally on the edges of society?