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Sisters in Sorrow
Even telepaths have secrets. . . .
Raima’s an orphaned escapee of the Martian sex trade with blood on her hands and nowhere to go. She doesn’t care about advancing humanity’s quest for genetic perfection, but when she’s offered a job as a test subject for a medtech company, she’s not in a position to refuse. Being paid to exploit her body is a relationship she understands all too well.
Then she meets Qi, a fellow lab rat, and finds a new kind of relationship she knows nothing about. Qi nurses Raima back to health after daily injections leave her bedridden and when she recovers, she finds she can hear Qi’s thoughts. The experiment has left her and the other survivors with telepathic powers. Surrounded by Qi’s consciousness and bathed in her tenderness, Raima finds the courage to face her past and begin healing. She wants nothing more than to learn about love with Qi.
But the company has no intention of letting its telepathic guinea pigs leave the facility ever again—unless they’re inside body bags. Her future with Qi, their very lives, depend on escape. The survivors’ leaders, twin sisters Marie and Manon, have a plan, but Raima feels the menace in their minds and knows they’re hiding something.
When technicians execute a survivor who happens to be the twins’ enemy, Raima finds evidence that the researchers’ minds have been manipulated by the twins. With Qi’s support she turns the others against them and becomes their new leader.
Now the escape is set and Raima is ready to give anything to save her new family and her love—even her life.
Raima’s an orphaned escapee of the Martian sex trade with blood on her hands and nowhere to go. She doesn’t care about advancing humanity’s quest for genetic perfection, but when she’s offered a job as a test subject for a medtech company, she’s not in a position to refuse. Being paid to exploit her body is a relationship she understands all too well.
Then she meets Qi, a fellow lab rat, and finds a new kind of relationship she knows nothing about. Qi nurses Raima back to health after daily injections leave her bedridden and when she recovers, she finds she can hear Qi’s thoughts. The experiment has left her and the other survivors with telepathic powers. Surrounded by Qi’s consciousness and bathed in her tenderness, Raima finds the courage to face her past and begin healing. She wants nothing more than to learn about love with Qi.
But the company has no intention of letting its telepathic guinea pigs leave the facility ever again—unless they’re inside body bags. Her future with Qi, their very lives, depend on escape. The survivors’ leaders, twin sisters Marie and Manon, have a plan, but Raima feels the menace in their minds and knows they’re hiding something.
When technicians execute a survivor who happens to be the twins’ enemy, Raima finds evidence that the researchers’ minds have been manipulated by the twins. With Qi’s support she turns the others against them and becomes their new leader.
Now the escape is set and Raima is ready to give anything to save her new family and her love—even her life.
256 pages, Paperback
Published September 1, 2018
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December 28, 2018
First and foremost, I have to declare that I know the author. I know the author well enough to be included in the Acknowledgements page (that's two this year, I am ecstatic). So this may not be an unbiased review.
Squee, I'm included in the Acknowledgements. ^_^
Anyway! This futuristic science fiction novel is set on Mars, after it's been colonized. We follow Raima, a teen with a very haunted, tortured past, as she is a test subject in genetic experiments designed to create telepaths. It's a slow burn, but once it gets moving, does it ever get moving.
This is a pretty dark book. However, it also has a lot of hope.
Squee, I'm included in the Acknowledgements. ^_^
Anyway! This futuristic science fiction novel is set on Mars, after it's been colonized. We follow Raima, a teen with a very haunted, tortured past, as she is a test subject in genetic experiments designed to create telepaths. It's a slow burn, but once it gets moving, does it ever get moving.
This is a pretty dark book. However, it also has a lot of hope.
April 12, 2019
Really enjoyed this read. It was fairly quick (really well-paced) and the lead character, Raima, really well-developed. I thought some of the other characters lacked the well-roundedness of the mains, but for the most part, they were all very interesting. Most of this book is built around telepathic emotion and dialogue, which was a really neat new take on dystopian writing... a lot of fun to figure out and dive into. Things I’d change? It has one of those terrible epilogues that doesn’t do any work for the novel itself and left me feeling really dissatisfied. Lots of ethnic characters in this thing, but the author could have leaned into that a little more. It also had a queer romance, which was done really well as it was essential to both girls’ survival instead of just tossed in to check a box.
In all, I’d definitely recommend giving it a go!
In all, I’d definitely recommend giving it a go!
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