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Wordsworth Editions. Gilchrist , R. Collins , Renee. Since Free ebooks since ZLibrary app. The book stayed superficial and repeated phrases and ideas over and over again if I have to read the phrase "lowliest of criminals" one more time I am going to throw something; also the neologisms did not work for me: "earputer" and "The Upterlife" being the most annoying offenders. The main character annoyed me without end; I have no idea what his thought processes were for screwing up his life and his sister's with it for what looks like slightly juvenile pranks.

I also did not find him or anyone in the book to be very believable. Imagine if that heaven was tailored exactly to your needs, wants and desires. In this heaven you can spend the rest of eternity doing exactly what you want. You can take on epic quests to defeat naughty knights, slay dragons, or spend your days lounging around the pool doing nothing. Or working your dream job. Or, you know, watching reality TV? Imagine if you could speak to God once a day. Check in with him. Say "Hey, how's it going?

Am I on the right path? Will you let me in? Do better. Of course, this god thinks that "All should pass through, but for the lowliest of criminals. Sounds awesome right? So all that's left to do is die. This is exactly what dead President Wickliffe has given the world in The Uploaded. When you die, your brain is uploaded into a massive server, where the world around you is tailored to your liking. Where you can shut out your living relatives or block the dead ones and go questing all day.

Where you can earn fabulous prizes and new gear for saving an elven race from destruction. Or you can spy on the living all day and look for juicy footage to send to the reality show "Sins of the Flesh.

The living must ensure the collected minds of the dead are able to live on in heaven. The result? A really shitty world to live in. Amichai wants to change that. Amichai believes the lives of the living should matter too. Most of the world has been wiped out by the Bubbler plague, including his parents.

The Life Guard, who dedicates their lives to ensuring the living work hard to protect the servers and prevent too many people from dying, make life hell on the living. The dead spy on you from cameras. Buildings are made out of coral because there is no metal it's all gone to the servers. Programming is illegal can't have anyone hacking those cameras and servers. Suicide and assisted suicide are illegal. Nurses do nothing to make their patients feel better, because life sucks and then you die.

Most jobs are factory jobs, mass producing chips to keep those servers updated. This book was so much fun! I loved the main character Amichai and his friends, Dare and Peaches. I especially loved his foster mother, Mama Alex, leader of the rebel cause and total bad ass.

They all felt real and flawed and different. The world building was fantastic. The author has taken this concept and imagined all the implications that might come with it, good and bad. Like- what about those of us who believed in God s before the Upterlife? How does government work when no one is ever really dead? How do the living feel when their loved ones die?

What is the state of the world when the living stop caring about life? How to the dead treat the living from the other side? How do the dead, in their imaginary world, ensure the living are obedient to their needs?

In addition to this, the author included lots of futuristic technology that added to overall setting of the story. Most weapons are non-lethal, because, you know, when the living die it's bad for the dead, so we see a few of those put to use as well as hacking devices, etc.

This is a light hearted read that will give you a LOT to think about. There were several parts that made me laugh out loud. I loved Therapy the pony. I thought the resolution to these problems was well thought out and planned. The writing was great and the concept was so unique. I've never read anything like this before and I really admire the author's imagination. My only real critique, is that the middle was a little bogged down with a mini love triangle that I didn't feel was necessary.

I felt the love between one set of characters and didn't feel it so much between the others. Other than that, a fantastic, highly imaginative read, that I would recommend to fans of sci-fi dystopians, and anyone who enjoyed Ready Player One.

Side note- the main character is not spending all his time gaming, but the general feel of these novels is very similar. Sarah needs a break from reviewing. I had never heard of the author or any of his books.

I admit, I probably should have read the blurb more attentively, if I had I may not have decided to read it. When I realised that Amichai was a teenager I was a bit surprised as I hadn't connected the descriptor 'orphan' with the fact that he was only Unfortunately I felt Amichai's behaviour in the first pages was totally unbelievable and it was a struggle to keep reading.

I was pretty close to DNFing, but pushed through all the most ridiculous and immature behaviour a character in his situation could have carried out. He had a sick sister who was relying on him, but all he could think about was how unfair his life was and how to top his last stupid prank - dye in the orphanage sprinkler system, a horse in the hospital where his sister was.

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