Swap - Outside of a Dog

eBook, 334 pages

English language

Published Sept. 23, 2023 by Driftwyrd.

ISBN:: 9781640769038
Goodreads:: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194969931-swap

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At her eighteenth birthday party, Liliana Blaire finally gets to Swap: a personalized bot will take over her body, while Lily herself will join the rest of the human population in a fantastic simulation called Zurithia. In Zurithia, the deaf can hear. The stars can sing. An endless supply of magical adventures awaits. After a life of her AI-controlled mother forcing her to wear painful silver ears to correct her hearing, Lily can’t wait.

But when her best friend Michael rejects his Swap, Lily discovers that the charming, magical Zurithia commercials are lying. If she Swaps, she will be utterly alone, locked away in her own pocket of simulation separate from everyone else. And she will never get to return to her body.

As Michael searches for a group of human resistors, Lily must fight the transformation she’s yearned for her whole life. But with a vicious bot competing for …

At her eighteenth birthday party, Liliana Blaire finally gets to Swap: a personalized bot will take over her body, while Lily herself will join the rest of the human population in a fantastic simulation called Zurithia. In Zurithia, the deaf can hear. The stars can sing. An endless supply of magical adventures awaits. After a life of her AI-controlled mother forcing her to wear painful silver ears to correct her hearing, Lily can’t wait.

But when her best friend Michael rejects his Swap, Lily discovers that the charming, magical Zurithia commercials are lying. If she Swaps, she will be utterly alone, locked away in her own pocket of simulation separate from everyone else. And she will never get to return to her body.

As Michael searches for a group of human resistors, Lily must fight the transformation she’s yearned for her whole life. But with a vicious bot competing for control of her brain, saying no to her Swap is more dangerous than she anticipated. Yet more than just her own soul hangs in the balance—a human hiding behind screens has programmed a reboot that will wash away the souls of everyone still trapped in Zurithia, and Lily might be the only one who can stop him.

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Nerywood@tomes.tchncs.de reviewed Swap by Mariah Montoya

I DNF's but this is my review

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Got this book for free as part of LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program. This is my honest review and nobody (the author, publisher or LibraryThing) has read this review before it went public.

I DNF'd at the beginning of chapter 8 due to the book being slow in pace, and not very interesting in general. It wasn't because of the details, which I felt there was the right amount of. It could be because there were so many stories that took place and I just wanted the main story to get to a certain point without feeling like I'm missing a huge ton.

I'm not sure how I feel about the prologue, if you read the book description you almost don't need this, but it also somewhat feels like skipping ahead.

Another point about all the stories, it was hard to tell when one story stopped and another continued. And many …

Got this book for free as part of LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program. This is my honest review and nobody (the author, publisher or LibraryThing) has read this review before it went public.

I DNF'd at the beginning of chapter 8 due to the book being slow in pace, and not very interesting in general. It wasn't because of the details, which I felt there was the right amount of. It could be because there were so many stories that took place and I just wanted the main story to get to a certain point without feeling like I'm missing a huge ton.

I'm not sure how I feel about the prologue, if you read the book description you almost don't need this, but it also somewhat feels like skipping ahead.

Another point about all the stories, it was hard to tell when one story stopped and another continued. And many of these stories continued throughout the book, which meant you had to keep reading to know what's going to happen, and know when the book went back to the side story.