It’s Monday! What are You Reading? - 11.11.24

 

New week means new monday bookish meme hosted by  The Book Date.

I've never been so amazed and disappointed by a book in my life. 

The concept is brilliant - people create a way to travel by "uploading" their minds and memories into a device and "printing" a new body at a distant location which then gets your consciousness uploaded into it. The "old" body gets destroyed and you continue as if nothing happened. The thing is, if you live for example 10 years and do not get scanned during that time but something happens to you, when your new body gets printed you get your personality from 10 years ago. The moral discussions and impacts of this on other people around you are truly fascinating. 

Here's the thing though, the rest of the plot is unfinished. You get ZERO answers about this planet or why a certain thing happened on the spaceship. So many side plots are opened but never closed. Not only that, but those who've read the ending know - it turns out it was all for nothing, everything is pointless. That's why I can't give this book more than 3 stars even though I loved the core theme and writing style. 😅

Currently reading this and while I didn't get far, it's good. Locked room mystery set in space, it doesn't get better than that 😂

I have no idea. I think I'll probably switch over to contemporary murder mysteries but we'll see.

💬 What are you currently reading? What are you planning on reading next? 💬