Upgrade by Blake Crouch - Discussion Thread

[Trisha]

“You are the next step in human evolution.”

At first, Logan Ramsay isn’t sure if anything’s different. He just feels a little . . . sharper. Better able to concentrate. Better at multitasking. Reading a bit faster, memorizing better, needing less sleep.

But before long, he can’t deny it: Something’s happening to his brain. To his body. He’s starting to see the world, and those around him—even those he loves most—in whole new ways.

The truth is, Logan’s genome has been hacked. And there’s a reason he’s been targeted for this upgrade. A reason that goes back decades to the darkest part of his past, and a horrific family legacy.

Worse still, what’s happening to him is just the first step in a much larger plan, one that will inflict the same changes on humanity at large—at a terrifying cost.

Because of his new abilities, Logan’s the one person in the world capable of stopping what’s been set in motion. But to have a chance at winning this war, he’ll have to become something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human.

And even as he’s fighting, he can’t help wondering: what if humanity’s only hope for a future really does lie in engineering our own evolution?

Intimate in scale yet epic in scope, Upgrade is an intricately plotted, lightning-fast tale that charts one man’s thrilling transformation, even as it asks us to ponder the limits of our humanity—and our boundless potential.

[Trisha]

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[Trisha]

Reading with my book club

through Ch 4

(view spoiler)[ wow, I can't even imagine doing this to a son. It was interesting to think how well planned it had to be to ensure *HE* was the one that was 'upgraded'/infected

how sad they told his family he was dead . . .

I found it interesting that so many people who worked that field and were scientists had criminal records. it's a good world building so far,I like it! (hide spoiler)]

fast read so far!

[Trisha]

Through Ch 9

(view spoiler)[ wow, so mom planned it but she's actually already gone! WOW
and his sister - it's so sad they are pitted against each other as soon as they find each other

crazy they guessed where he'd show up! awful, she's killed so many in the town!

and wow, the same sicknesses as canibalism?!?! (hide spoiler)]

[Siobian]

I’m getting this in my September box, so I’ll be back to discuss when I begin reading it :)

[Trisha]

Yay! I hope you love it!! It's a really fast read!

[Trisha]

and I'm finally done
and I chat with a book club tomorrow about it and then again Thursday

this one was so good

(view spoiler)[ I can't believe his sister was killed. I thought she might always be on the other side of a glass room.
and I'm so glad he got to see his family - at least they know he is alive and he got to see his daughter graduate

I don't know how I feel knowing he did release something. I know he couldn't do nothing but what's wrong with working with others to do something?! working alone and rogue was what his mom did wrong - not working with a whole group of people to bounce the ideas off of.

this was a great read tho. I loved it! (hide spoiler)]