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Free to Fall
Free to Fall | Lauren Miller
From the author of Parallel comes a high-stakes romantic puzzler set in a near-future where everyone's life is seamlessly orchestrated by personal electronic devices. Imaginative and thrilling, this fast-paced story with two starred reviews is not to be missed. Fast-forward to a time when Apple and Google have been replaced by Gnosis, a monolith corporation that has developed the most life-changing technology to ever hit the market: Lux, an app that flawlessly optimizes decision-making for the best personal results. Just like everyone else, sixteen-year-old Rory Vaughn knows the key to a happy, healthy life is to follow what Lux recommends. When she's accepted to the elite boarding school Theden Academy, her future happiness seems all the more assured. But once on campus, something feels wrong beneath the polished surface of her prestigious dream school. Then she meets North, a handsome townie who doesn't use Lux, and begins to fall for him and his outsider way of life. Soon, Rory is going against Lux's recommendations, listening instead to the inner voice that everyone has been taught to ignorea choice that leads her to uncover a truth neither she nor the world ever saw coming.
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TheAromaofBooks
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Set in the not-too-distant future, society looks very similar to today. Unsurprisingly, people are more dependent on their cell phones than ever, especially on an app called Lux, which analyzes every situation for you and tells you the optimal choice for every question - what to eat, where to shop, when to leave for an appointment. When Rory gets accepted to the most prestigious high school in the country, she's thrilled, especially when she ⬇️

TheAromaofBooks finds out that her mother (who died when Rory was born) also attended the same school. Things take a darker twist, though, as Rory begins to discover things about the school, a secret society, and (of course) Lux. While some aspects of this story were predictable YA/scifi/dystopian kind of stuff, overall I really loved the concept of a society that has done its best to quash that quiet voice in our heads & replace it with 100% rational choices ⬇ 4y
TheAromaofBooks thanks to technology. This book felt like it could easily have strayed too far into religious territory, but kept the balance well. Overall a fun read for its genre.

Challenges: #ReadtheUSA2020/#SeparatedbyaPondTour - Massachusetts @Andrew65 || #WinterBookBingo - Book on the TBR too long (since 2016!) @Honeybeegirl || #JanuaryBookBingo - Character moves to a new town || #TurningPagesBingo - Set in high school || #BackwardsAtoZ - No N || ⬇
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TheAromaofBooks #FebruaryBookBingo - Title starts with F 4y
Crazeedi Well done!👏💕 4y
Andrew65 Well done 👏👏👏😊 4y
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TheAromaofBooks
Free to Fall | Lauren Miller
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Special thanks to @emilymdxn for hosting the #WideHorizonsReadathon this past week! I didn't do a great job posting my updates, but I did track my time. I was halfway the tagged book when I went to bed last night, putting my final time at 18hrs 18mins - short of my goal, but I did read 8 1/2 books during this week (a total of 2305 pages!) Life was a little crazier than expected, so not as much reading time as I wanted, but still loads of fun!

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The story was fascinating and thriled! I couldnt stop reading!! An amazing message about the new media 💕

bookaholic1 Welcome to Litsy!! 5y
StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego Welcome to Litsy 📖💙 5y
Eggs Welcome to Litsy 🌸 5y
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claudiapriscila
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Beautiful.

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Lielan_Reads
Free to Fall | Lauren Miller
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Hey lovelies 😗

And hellooo Litsy. I'm definitely in love with the Blurb function. 😅📖

My currently reading is Eden Academy by Lauren Miller and so far, the story is insanely interesting and something absolutely new and different. 😍📚

#currentlyreading #laurenmiller #freetofall #edenacademy #booklover #bookish #book #bookaholic #bookworm #booknerd

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sabrina_waite
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Ok, seriously one of the best books I have ever read. The description of the book makes it seem really cliché, but if you can get past that it's really well written. So, Rory is a girl living in a dystopian future (yeah, cliché) and she enrolls to her dream school of Theden Academy. She's really smart, so she gets in. When she gets to the school somethings are pretty sketch-so obviously she's gotta figure it out. Really cool, highly recommend!

lilredhen I was pleasantly surprised when I read this. Proof that I shouldn't take books at the value of their descriptions. 8y
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lilredhen
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This was a great read. I thought at first that it would be another "super smart teen goes to fancy school, angst happens". Instead I get conspiracies, murder, and a discussion of free will, complete with riddles and quotes from Paradise Lost.

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lilredhen
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Getting close to the end. Normally tech/near dystopian isn't my thing, but I haven't wanted to put it down. I HAVE wanted to never ever ever use a tablet or smart phone again lol

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