Overall review: Going in to this book I didn’t expect to enjoy it so much, I barely read the beginning of the summary since it was the cover that drew me in. I also felt like the romance was unnecessary, and it didn’t really fit in to the plot very well. I thought what she did was incredibly revolting to do, especially trying to take her daughter’s free will away over a procedure. What I didn’t like: On a personal opinion I didn’t like Elissa and Lin’s mother, especially the last time we see her. All the terms and technology we’re introduced to gets explained in some form or fashion that makes it comprehensible to understand, which I really liked and the technology was actually believable.

Lin is a clearly emotionally unstable and ignorant about how the world works, not to mention she seems to only seek the acceptance of Elissa, the one person she believes will help her despite being categorized as a “nonhuman”. At the same time, she’s different from that and we known she’s fallen out from everyone because of something she doesn’t understand and people have witnessed the side affects and not understood what was happening to her, so they shunned her, mocked her, and left her feeling out of what she wanted to be, ordinary. What I like: Elissa was a very ordinary, if spoiled, girl from what we gather from before her hallucinations started to gather force. Riveting, thought-provoking and utterly compelling, Linked will make you question what it really means to be human. Now, Elissa and Lin are on the run from a government who will stop at nothing to reclaim Lin and protect the dangerous secrets she could expose-secrets that would shake the very foundation of their world. A girl-Lin-who looks exactly like Elissa, down to the matching bruises.

But on the eve of the procedure, she discovers the shocking truth behind her hallucinations: she’s been seeing the world through another girl’s eyes.Įlissa follows her visions, and finds a battered, broken girl on the run. But for the last three years, she’s been struggling with terrifying visions, phantom pains, and mysterious bruises that appear out of nowhere.įinally, she’s promised a cure: minor surgery to burn out the overactive area of her brain. Elissa used to have it all: looks, popularity, and a bright future.

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