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Racing Backward
A gritty sci-fi story about genetic tyranny and family secrets, from the author of acclaimed true crime thriller Operation Devil Horns.
Eric Keller is a rising-star special agent with the federal Department of Human Genome, but his life isn't as perfect as it seems.
The genetic edits that Keller's ultrarich mother performed on him as a child (but never told him about) are wearing off, and his body is undergoing strange changes. Compounding his troubles, Keller's new girlfriend thinks he's a rat, and his partner at DHG is a dirty backstabbing cop.
In discovering the true nature of the system that he serves, Keller must confront shocking facts about the evolution of modern humans, as well as face his own troubled family's origins.
Eric Keller is a rising-star special agent with the federal Department of Human Genome, but his life isn't as perfect as it seems.
The genetic edits that Keller's ultrarich mother performed on him as a child (but never told him about) are wearing off, and his body is undergoing strange changes. Compounding his troubles, Keller's new girlfriend thinks he's a rat, and his partner at DHG is a dirty backstabbing cop.
In discovering the true nature of the system that he serves, Keller must confront shocking facts about the evolution of modern humans, as well as face his own troubled family's origins.
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Published December 1, 2022
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January 15, 2023
I received this ebook for free in a Goodreads giveaway.
I didn't really like this book. In fact, I would have DNF'd it but I try to push through on self published books and give them the benefit of the doubt.
This is a very political book. VERY political. I didn't realize that when I entered the giveaway for the book. I only saw the initial title Racing Backward and the sci fi genre and thought it looked interesting. The rest of the title would've given me pause if I looked into it further: Escape from the Gene Vaccine Tyrants. I don't enjoy political writing. It doesn't matter if it's from the left or the right, I read to escape the world and I don't want to be immersed in an even worse version of it.
Politics aside, there were many other problems I had with the book. The characters were not well developed. They felt very flat, and I didn't form a connection with any of them. The instalove relationship was way too rushed and unbelievable. There was no development, no dialogue, nothing to make me believe as a reader that these two characters actual like anything about the other one. The pacing was erratic. The first 75%ish of the book is fairly slow. Then suddenly it turns into a Michael Bay story with car chases and bombs going off. There wasn't a consistent flow to the story. There were random characters and storylines that only seemed to be there in order to further the author's political rhetoric. Ex: the scientist trying to recreate the consciousness of the Neanderthal. This didn't add anything to the overall story except to provide an opportunity to show the duplicity of the media, the violence and stupidity of protesters, the uninformed idiocy of cancel culture, etc.
Overall, while I think readers who are okay with or even appreciate political writing may enjoy this more than I did, there are still multiple issues with the book.
I didn't really like this book. In fact, I would have DNF'd it but I try to push through on self published books and give them the benefit of the doubt.
This is a very political book. VERY political. I didn't realize that when I entered the giveaway for the book. I only saw the initial title Racing Backward and the sci fi genre and thought it looked interesting. The rest of the title would've given me pause if I looked into it further: Escape from the Gene Vaccine Tyrants. I don't enjoy political writing. It doesn't matter if it's from the left or the right, I read to escape the world and I don't want to be immersed in an even worse version of it.
Politics aside, there were many other problems I had with the book. The characters were not well developed. They felt very flat, and I didn't form a connection with any of them. The instalove relationship was way too rushed and unbelievable. There was no development, no dialogue, nothing to make me believe as a reader that these two characters actual like anything about the other one. The pacing was erratic. The first 75%ish of the book is fairly slow. Then suddenly it turns into a Michael Bay story with car chases and bombs going off. There wasn't a consistent flow to the story. There were random characters and storylines that only seemed to be there in order to further the author's political rhetoric. Ex: the scientist trying to recreate the consciousness of the Neanderthal. This didn't add anything to the overall story except to provide an opportunity to show the duplicity of the media, the violence and stupidity of protesters, the uninformed idiocy of cancel culture, etc.
Overall, while I think readers who are okay with or even appreciate political writing may enjoy this more than I did, there are still multiple issues with the book.
July 28, 2023
Interesting
I won this book from a Goodreads
Giveaway. It is not the typical book that I would choose, but it was an okay read. I feel like it was a slow start and then a rush to the end. Didn't feel like there was enough time to really get to know the characters and some situations seemed to happen a little unbelievably fast. I also feel like there was an extra story thrown in that didn't really add to the main story. Tended to feel like there was 2 different stories thrown into 1 and no satisfying resolution to the 2nd one.
I won this book from a Goodreads
Giveaway. It is not the typical book that I would choose, but it was an okay read. I feel like it was a slow start and then a rush to the end. Didn't feel like there was enough time to really get to know the characters and some situations seemed to happen a little unbelievably fast. I also feel like there was an extra story thrown in that didn't really add to the main story. Tended to feel like there was 2 different stories thrown into 1 and no satisfying resolution to the 2nd one.
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