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Title | These Precious Scars
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Author | Emily Suvada
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Publisher | Simon & Schuster - 2018
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First Printing | Simon & Schuster - 2018
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Title | This Moral Coil
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Author | Emily Suvada
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Publisher | Simon Pulse - 2017
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First Printing | Simon Pulse - 2017
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Title | This Cruel Design
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Author | Emily Suvada
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Title | This Vicious Cure
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Author | Emily Suvada
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Category | Science Fiction
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Warnings | None
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Main Characters | Catarina Agatta, Jun Bei, Cole, Anna, Leoben, Ziana
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Main Elements | Pandemic
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Website | ---
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 These Precious Scars
A free YA short story - what would you pay for the chance to escape?
Jun Bei, Cole, Anna, Leoben, Ziana. Five children with extraordinary potential.
They don't get many visitors at the remote laboratory where they live under the eye of legendary geneticist, Lachlan Agatta. The man and woman who arrive are nothing like the others.
They're from Cartaxus and offer the children something rare and unfathomable: escape.
But freedom means different things to the five children. For one of them, getting want they want may mean betraying everyone else.
This Mortal Coil
When a lone soldier, Cole, arrives with news of Lachlan Agatta's death, all hope seems lost for Catarina. Her father was the world's leading geneticist, and humanity's best hope of beating a devastating virus. Then, hidden beneath Cole's genehacked enhancements she finds a message of hope: Lachlan created a vaccine.
Only she can find and decrypt it, if she can unravel the clues he left for her. The closer she gets, the more she finds herself at risk from Cartaxus, a shadowy organization with a stranglehold on the world's genetic tech. But it's too late to turn back.
There are three billion lives at stake, two people who can save them, and one final secret that Cat must unlock. A secret that will change everything.
I read the short story first, it's available free on the rivetedlit.com site even now, the first book was also available for a month. I thought I would then proceed and read the rest so I held off writing this review for a year and a half...but now I'm starting to forget what happened.
I know there is a horrific disease that had been let lose, and there is a lead female character who is of course attracted to the male character that tries to abduct her at the beginning of the first book. He's a genetically enhanced soldier that works for the bad guys but he wants to help Cat find and release the vaccine for the disease.
There was some interesting tech, Cat is a programmer, but not of computer code but of human genes, and of course there is also something very special about her, something her father did to her. I planned to read the rest in 2022 while I was doing an SF themed year but it just didn't happen so here I'm quickly writing up a quick review since now I'm not sure when I'll get to the rest. It was however interesting enough to make it worth my while to purchase the two books, seeing as my library didn't have them.
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