More like 3.5⭐️ ( )

I enjoyed the premise of this book: a couple is choosing alternative life directions for their yet-to-be conceived son with the help of some genetic "nudging". With CRISPR technology, this is an idea that is not so far fetched. It raises many moral and ethical dilemmas. However, the book steers abruptly from these discussions in the last third, bringing a whole different set of issues into the forefront. Not nearly as interesting issues. ( )

Winter 2021 (January);

I really got nothing out of this part of The Forward Collection. I felt like this story retrod ground we've already covered in this exact situation in writing and tv shows/movies before. I'm, also, still confused about the whole shift of the unreliable narrating sections toward the end. ( )

My second favorite of this series. ( )

“We are who we are, right? There’s no point in pushing our personalities uphill.”
― Amor Towles, You Have Arrived at Your Destination

A fascinating short story! Very very weird and very very out there but completely engrossing.

It would be very hard to say much about this story without giving away crucial things. So even though I often do plot recaps I am not going to do that with the story. Suffice to say the writing is outstanding and futuristic.

I enjoyed the first part more than the second and that is because I thought it was going in a direction it did not go but that I kind of wish it had gone if that makes any sense at all!

I’m reading this for and would’ve given it a five except for certain things that were rather confusing. This is incredibly difficult not to follow but to really understand.

It’s the kind of story where you kind of have to read into things as there are many things that are not really clearly spelled out for U.

I really enjoyed it and it’s fast read. Who else would enjoy it? I think if you like short stories with terrific writing or just like science fiction you should probably read this.

It is also deeply thought-provoking. It might make you wonder about your own choices and what you would do were you to find yourself in the situation the main character finds himself in.

It’s a fascinating exploration of something that is a bit frightening to think about, not to mention creepy, but not something altogether impossible.

I would have to recommend this because it definitely added something to my life reading it and that’s what a good piece of literature is supposed to do.

It’s been a good year of reading so far and this is the story that I think most are likely to admire as well as be a bit creeped out by!

So I’d recommend it. I’m not even a major science fiction reader but I really enjoyed it very much. I think you will to ( )