At the beginning of the novel Harry is 14 and Charlie is 13, they meet because Harry is an aspiring journalist and one of his leads took him to Charlie, from there they formed an unlikely friendship.
I will be very honest, I almost stopped reading during the first “part”, reading about a grown man making inappropriate comments to a 13 year old girl and licking her face is disgusting and I felt very uncomfortable, and again when the same grown man and an accomplice dragged Harry into a supply room and grabbed his genitalia whilst threatening him and his family.
This novel is spread over a fair few years
The second part of this takes place 2 years on, Harry and Charlie are still in contact and she has been released from Juvie on good behaviour, but there are conditions.
As she has no family she moves into Obama Independent Living accommodation and meets Brad- an 18 year old who lives in a room across the hallway.
I have to say I was not keen on a lot of the dialogue between Charlie and Brad- an 18 year old referring to 2 younger girls as “sluts” is just not ok, I also couldn’t understand Charlies decision to have sex with him when she knows he has a girlfriend, she only decided it was a bad thing when she realised he was having sex with various women behind his girlfriends back.
Honestly there were quite a few occasions where I could have stopped reading this as I wasn’t keen on the dialogue, at all, the 3rd part takes place a few years on, Harry had ended contact with Charlie when he realised that she had been sleeping with Brad, but gone was the awkward skinny boy with acne, instead he had taken a course of gene editing injections to alter his outward appearance and strength.
Despite having no scientific knowledge I did find the science aspects quite intriguing, and a little worrying- I mean just imagine if you could alter your genetic makeup with a few injections. And this is where the description on goodreads really started to make sense to me because for the first 2 sections (until Charlie meets Mango) I was confused as to what was going to happen.
It does baffle me how Charlie managed to avoid being arrested for years after her release considering how that was something she was initially worried about and wanted to live a normal life- trust me her life was anything but normal.
Towards the end I assume Charlie is in her mid to late 20s and she sort of has her life on some form of track, although she did go through an awful lot to get to where she is.
Harry had run a relatively successful website as a teenager but as he got older, the viruses got worse and the price inflation was ridiculous ($60 for a cupcake and $300 for a proper coffee) so that money didn’t go very far in the end.
I feel like the ending was very open with a possibility of a sequel as there were still a lot of very dangerous Gene modifications and viruses being spread around and as Charlie said “The Fight goes on, right?”
All in all this had a very interesting concept and in the end I didn’t dislike it, but I can’t help but feel like there are huge sections that could have been left out, like some of the dialogue, as it just seemed to go on and on in some areas, and some of it just seemed a bit inappropriate or far-fetched.
I will be very honest, I almost stopped reading during the first “part”, reading about a grown man making inappropriate comments to a 13 year old girl and licking her face is disgusting and I felt very uncomfortable, and again when the same grown man and an accomplice dragged Harry into a supply room and grabbed his genitalia whilst threatening him and his family.
This novel is spread over a fair few years
The second part of this takes place 2 years on, Harry and Charlie are still in contact and she has been released from Juvie on good behaviour, but there are conditions.
As she has no family she moves into Obama Independent Living accommodation and meets Brad- an 18 year old who lives in a room across the hallway.
I have to say I was not keen on a lot of the dialogue between Charlie and Brad- an 18 year old referring to 2 younger girls as “sluts” is just not ok, I also couldn’t understand Charlies decision to have sex with him when she knows he has a girlfriend, she only decided it was a bad thing when she realised he was having sex with various women behind his girlfriends back.
Honestly there were quite a few occasions where I could have stopped reading this as I wasn’t keen on the dialogue, at all, the 3rd part takes place a few years on, Harry had ended contact with Charlie when he realised that she had been sleeping with Brad, but gone was the awkward skinny boy with acne, instead he had taken a course of gene editing injections to alter his outward appearance and strength.
Despite having no scientific knowledge I did find the science aspects quite intriguing, and a little worrying- I mean just imagine if you could alter your genetic makeup with a few injections. And this is where the description on goodreads really started to make sense to me because for the first 2 sections (until Charlie meets Mango) I was confused as to what was going to happen.
It does baffle me how Charlie managed to avoid being arrested for years after her release considering how that was something she was initially worried about and wanted to live a normal life- trust me her life was anything but normal.
Towards the end I assume Charlie is in her mid to late 20s and she sort of has her life on some form of track, although she did go through an awful lot to get to where she is.
Harry had run a relatively successful website as a teenager but as he got older, the viruses got worse and the price inflation was ridiculous ($60 for a cupcake and $300 for a proper coffee) so that money didn’t go very far in the end.
I feel like the ending was very open with a possibility of a sequel as there were still a lot of very dangerous Gene modifications and viruses being spread around and as Charlie said “The Fight goes on, right?”
All in all this had a very interesting concept and in the end I didn’t dislike it, but I can’t help but feel like there are huge sections that could have been left out, like some of the dialogue, as it just seemed to go on and on in some areas, and some of it just seemed a bit inappropriate or far-fetched.