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The Family Experiment
By: John Marrs
Publication Date: July 9, 2024
Published By: Hanover Square Press
465 pages
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This book was mind bending! There are some in the UK that are desperate to start a family. The population is overcrowded, costs are sky high, and some just can’t start a family. But now there is a service in which, for a monthly fee, you can have a virtual child! To introduce this to the world, the company launches a reality TV show wherein couples compete by raising a baby in the virtual world. They enter the metaverse with a special suit and a VR headset. The winner will either be able to keep their virtual child, or have the chance to start a real family. This experiment is 9 months long, so the development milestones jump far – from newborn to toddler in a month! (If only!) The contestants are watched 24/7 by the public. Who will win, and will they keep their virtual baby or try to start a real family?
Whoo this book. This book is set in the same universe as Marrs’ other books The One, The Marriage Act, and The Minders. It’s not necessary that you read those though (and I haven’t read two of the three). There is a large cast of characters, and at first it was a little difficult to keep them all straight, but I caught on rather quickly.
One of the aspects that I liked in this book was the use of mixed media. There were news articles and chats included as well. It breaks up the book a bit, and since it was a reality TV show, it was nice to get a snippet of how the public was reacting to the reality show.
Where Marrs gets these ideas I’ll never know (though he does explain it at the end of the book). But man, talk about something unique. Not only is the concept unique, but there are so many twists and turns that occur in the book. I didn’t see any of them coming, and the one that I thought I saw coming and guessed, I was wrong. This book was just SOOOO good! It’s mind bending and mind blowing.
I’d really love to see this one as a movie or TV show – I really think this is the perfect book for that.
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