Ashley Shea’s Reviews > The Merge > Status Update
Ashley Shea
is 72% done
I don't know if it's because life is very much getting in the way here the past several days, or if it's just moving slowly and weirdly but crazy CRAZY unhinged shit is going down and yet it's taking me what feels like forever to get through it. Ugh, dismantle this cult already! Where is Albie?! Where are the protestors?! What is going on?! (Notice I didn't ask 'how could they let this happen?' because I get it now)
— Dec 08, 2025 07:22PM
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Ashley Shea
is 50% done
I had no idea I got through so much today. I thought today was a bad reading day... Did I forget to update yesterday? Anyway, nothing new, in that we're at that point in the story where everything has happened how we thought it would so naturally, something truly awful is about to happen... The way I went from "hm, interesting concept" straight to "holy shit this is exactly how they control us!" is wild to me.
— Dec 05, 2025 09:52PM
Ashley Shea
is 29% done
Our first twist!!! This dystopia is messed up! And Amelia has got to be driving herself crazy trying to keep her stories straight. This society seems awful! It's really an amazing concept that this jarring EXPERIMENTAL process of merging your consciousness with someone has taken over to such an extent that they get all these perks, while everyone else is taxed literally to death. Ripe for revolution!
— Dec 04, 2025 07:36PM
Ashley Shea
is 17% done
I had no idea there would be such a dystopian vibe. I'm very hooked immediately. I want to immerse myself in this alternate, possible future world where there's been climate wars and now the poor are actually forced to merge in order to be able to afford to live. The description very much made it seem like it was just to save a loved one. But life is also very busy right now, so getting reading time in is hard.
— Dec 03, 2025 09:07PM
