Book: The Family Experiment
Author: John Marrs
Pages: 384
This is my 156th read for the year
This is the story of a group of people who were chosen to raise a child in the Metaverse. Each participant will help raise a virtual child for 9 months and the child will age from newborn to 18 years of age in that timeframe. The winner in the end will get a hefty prize and also the chance to start their own family or keep their virtual child. All other children will be erased. As secrets of the contestants start to emerge, their lives being front and center 24 hours a day on television starts to take a toll. The general public is not convinced that any of the contestants deserve to win.
This was a very interesting book. I could not put it down because I was so interested in where the stories of the contestants were going. Each chapter is a different couple (and the one single parent), and the book moves ahead in segments with those families as the virtual child ages. As things unravel for most of the couples, I wanted to see wat the ending was going to be like. The fault I have with it -and the reason I didn't give it 5 stars - is because it does my most hated thing. It keeps the reader in the dark way more than necessary. You get small snippets of each family but you are always left wanting more. I thought the whole idea was very clever. And I did like the writing EXCEPT for the above mentioned. He is a good writer otherwise. The ending wasn't as strong as I was hoping it was going to be. But I am glad I read it.
Stars: 4
That sounds like a book for me!!! I jumped on the hold list at the library. Thanks for telling us about it.
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