His secret was that he created her. Her secret is much bigger.
Beautiful. Mysterious. Unreachable.
Broadcasting from her perfectly curated room, she’s an instant sensation. Everyone wants to buy what she has. Wear her jewelry. Use her makeup. So they can be like her. Look like her. Feel close to her. Know her.
But no one can really know Ash. She’s just an illusion. A string of code I created … know Ash. She’s just an illusion. A string of code I created to sell things and make money.
It was the perfect plan.
Until she starts going off script, saying things I didn’t program her to say.
Knowing things she can’t know.
Feeling things she can’t feel.
Or can she?
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It’s like magic.
Ash is a beautiful international model that makes YouTube type videos to sell beauty products, clothes, Jewelry, etc. Ash wants you to buy what she uses so you can be beautiful too. The only catch is she isn’t real. She’s a collection of numbers and codes programmed by Claude to influence the common consumer. Claude created her to sell products for his high ranking clients. From the first day to Claude’s shock, Ash has displayed independent thought and has become argumentative. Claude immediately shuts off the computer but he doesn’t find her at the same place he left her when he shut off the computer. She is also going off script parroting other videos she’s looked at for research. This freaks Claude out and he asks her about it however, Ash doesn’t understand why Claude is so upset. I loved this book. It was so original and timely. It was a modern-day Frankenstein. Lol. I loved the Characters. The writer wrote the aspect and dynamics of the maker vs. the creation very well. I loved the fact that Ash had some faults in her program such as stutters and misuse of words in a sentence. At first, I thought they were typos, and grammar mistakes however, I understood quickly they were a part of Ash’s speech pattern. Lol. This was a brilliantly written modern-day parable that was fun to read. This is the first book I’ve read by this author and will not be last. I am glad I found this author and will look her up in the future. I received a complimentary copy of this ARC from Hidden Gems in exchange for an honest review.
Good scifi escape book. May try others by this author.
I enjoyed reading this book, it has a good storyline. This book is filled with action, adventure, and intrigue. The chemistry and interaction between the characters is great. I can’t wait for more from this author. I received this book as a FREE ARC copy to read and I voluntarily leave this review.
I loved this book! I had fairly high hopes after reading Inside the Masque, and wow, this was just as great but in a completely different way. Amazing characters, existential questions, a captivating plot, one of the best cats in literature… what wasn’t there to love? I’m waiting with bells on to see what R.T.W. Lipkin writes next.
I received a free copy of The Influencer, but that did not affect my review.
Allow two days for this PG13 twenty-first-century transmutation of The Velveteen Rabbit into the mid-life crisis of a coder which is primarily about Ash and Claude.
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She is a sensation and she could sell.snow to the Eskimos or sand to the Gobi desert. Every woman wants what she is selling and to look like her. There is just One major problem, he designed and made her through his computer. Something changes when she start to say and do things she is not expected to do. What is going on? Why is it happening now? See what is truly going on
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