Hey all, I'm looking for ARC reviewers for my debut novel, Scorched Earth: The Library Power. It's a dystopian novel with themes of artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, climate change and at its heart, what it means to be human.
Short blurb: Human connections are illegal. 90 percent of the world's oceans have been lost to space. Humanity is on the brink of extinction. Josephine works 24/7 just to survive, then a young girl enters her life and changes everything, including what it means to be human.
Full blurb
With 90 per cent of the world's oceans lost to space, and daytime temperatures of over 100 degrees Celsius, only one city remains fighting to keep humanity alive. Elizabetha. The people who live there work 24/7 and are banned from human connections. Should any citizen form one, they are sent on the walk for the crime of being a feeler.
Air-conditioning worker Josephine Fairmount has a secret desire to be a feeler, something she suppresses from even herself. But then young Charlene enters her life, a uniquely odd and very young teenage girl.
Charlene is a feeler, and Josephine has to decide whether to expose her or risk exposing herself by saving her. This thrusts her into an epic life-and-death journey that will unravel many dark truths about just who Elizabethans really are, decide the fate of all humanity, and decide whether she can ever truly be what she has always wanted to be. A mother.
Triggers: threats and violence, hints of cannibalism
Publication date: 23rd of October 2026
ARC is available to download on Booksprouts.
I'm hoping for people to have finished the book by 23 October 2026 and if possible to post the reviews on that date, or at most no later than a day or two after. Reviews posted on Goodreads would be great, Amazon even better.
Short blurb: Human connections are illegal. 90 percent of the world's oceans have been lost to space. Humanity is on the brink of extinction. Josephine works 24/7 just to survive, then a young girl enters her life and changes everything, including what it means to be human.
Full blurb
With 90 per cent of the world's oceans lost to space, and daytime temperatures of over 100 degrees Celsius, only one city remains fighting to keep humanity alive. Elizabetha. The people who live there work 24/7 and are banned from human connections. Should any citizen form one, they are sent on the walk for the crime of being a feeler.
Air-conditioning worker Josephine Fairmount has a secret desire to be a feeler, something she suppresses from even herself. But then young Charlene enters her life, a uniquely odd and very young teenage girl.
Charlene is a feeler, and Josephine has to decide whether to expose her or risk exposing herself by saving her. This thrusts her into an epic life-and-death journey that will unravel many dark truths about just who Elizabethans really are, decide the fate of all humanity, and decide whether she can ever truly be what she has always wanted to be. A mother.
Triggers: threats and violence, hints of cannibalism
Publication date: 23rd of October 2026
ARC is available to download on Booksprouts.
I'm hoping for people to have finished the book by 23 October 2026 and if possible to post the reviews on that date, or at most no later than a day or two after. Reviews posted on Goodreads would be great, Amazon even better.
An ARC copy is available here:
https://booksprout.co/reviewer/review...