Starter Zone

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In this fantastical, post-apocalyptical story, hydrologists are now able to inscribe the consciousness of anyone rich enough to afford it into one single drop of water.

The rich and wealthy have begun uploading their minds into self-contained virtual realities, know as Aquariums. Within these Aquariums, you can achieve anything your heart desires. However, the Government now wants to gain control of this technology and terrorism has caused widespread destruction. Due to this, the Aquariums are failing and every inscribed mind has leaked into the water cycle causing utter chaos.

Each drop of untreated water puts everyone's lives in danger, however, if you are caught and imprisoned by the soldiers you will be sold into slavery. Three years after the fall of civilisation street-gangs rule the world. Cami and, her younger sister, Alby struggle to survive. Cami will do anything to protect Alby however, they are caught by hydrologists in their attempt to flee the city and make it to the country to live in peace. They are then thrown into a very different kind of danger.

This book has some great, unique concepts that I had never come across prior- the fact you can upload your consciousness into a kind of water-based memory storage tank. The first half of this novel begins as any normal post-apocalyptic tale would start, however, we then enter a gaming world full of role-playing. This book definitely would appeal to multiple people with multiple tastes, you have RPG and post-apocalyptic all wrapped into one little package hut Pavesic makes it work!

This book was easy to read and enjoyable even as someone who is not big of post-apocalyptic novels or gaming. I found it easy to understand exactly what was going on and it was not so far-fetched as to be unbelievable. It is fast-paced fantasy read from start to finish.