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The Family Experiment by John Marrs
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Another solid read by John Marrs!
In this book we are still in the same timeline/world as his previous stories, but we are now following the idea of AI children.
With people being no longer able to afford children (money/over population etc), they can now pay a monthly fee, and create their own Virtual child, a Meta kid, that they can nurture and watch grow up, all while wearing a gaming headset in the comfort of their living room.
The company trying to push this into mainstream is hoping that a cool new gameshow will push people into buying their own.
And so "The Family Experiment" is born, millions of people will watch 10 young, childless couples raise a virtual baby up to the age of 18 (sped up into a 9mth series) the audience watching will have a chance to judge all of your parenting skills, and vote for their favourites.
The prize for the winner? Well, you get to keep your meta child of course........or you can just hand it all back and get money to try and have the chance to make a "real" baby.......
I hate that John's books always make me think "omg this could actually happen" because there is always something hiding in the shadows that throw a spanner in the works, and this book is no exception! Secrets, Lies and lots of characters, who seemingly have nothing in common.....until they do.
A fab read, and I would definitely recommend the audiobook to be able to hear all of the different adverts in between the chapters, you are after all, part of the experiment!!!
In this book we are still in the same timeline/world as his previous stories, but we are now following the idea of AI children.
With people being no longer able to afford children (money/over population etc), they can now pay a monthly fee, and create their own Virtual child, a Meta kid, that they can nurture and watch grow up, all while wearing a gaming headset in the comfort of their living room.
The company trying to push this into mainstream is hoping that a cool new gameshow will push people into buying their own.
And so "The Family Experiment" is born, millions of people will watch 10 young, childless couples raise a virtual baby up to the age of 18 (sped up into a 9mth series) the audience watching will have a chance to judge all of your parenting skills, and vote for their favourites.
The prize for the winner? Well, you get to keep your meta child of course........or you can just hand it all back and get money to try and have the chance to make a "real" baby.......
I hate that John's books always make me think "omg this could actually happen" because there is always something hiding in the shadows that throw a spanner in the works, and this book is no exception! Secrets, Lies and lots of characters, who seemingly have nothing in common.....until they do.
A fab read, and I would definitely recommend the audiobook to be able to hear all of the different adverts in between the chapters, you are after all, part of the experiment!!!