I've reached my expiration date.Not that it matters. We're all going to die.To Mickaela Capra, all words have flavours. Each emotion burns so fierce she carves them into her skin. The night she decides to press the blade deep enough, a stranger offers her a different kind of ending. One that makes her question everything she’s learned about the apocalypse.But truth comes with a price. Two rules carved in bone: Kill. Survive.Because the final wars were never meant to end.----A haunting exploration of trauma and survival, for readers of Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam.Warning: Contains themes of recovery from trauma following emotional and physical abuse, violence, neglect, and other content which may be triggering to some readers.????? Such an enticing, chilling, marvellous story, with a unique, fierce leading character. I fell in love with the story within a few sentences. 11/10. Absolutely amazing!????? The story moves, the written structure is excellent, the verbal and inner dialogue are very real, and the portrayal of emotion, conflict, attachment, love and hate that are normally pretty hard to pull off are done with mastery.????? Amazing series! I had 3 sleepless nights because I just could not put this, or the other books in the series, down until they were read from the title page to references!????? This was so brilliant! If I mix a bit of The Hunger Games, Helix, and The Walking Dead (minus the zombies) together I can only approximate how amazing this book is.????? WOW!! Incredible!! Visceral!! One of the best books I've read in the genre.????? The strong female character is extremely rare and fresh.????? Probably the best tale I have read in months.????? Hands down, one of the best post-apocalyptic books I have ever read.

What would you give to live forever? Elijah Brighton wants to become an ascender—a post-Singularity human/machine hybrid—after all, they’re smarter, more enlightened, more compassionate, and above all, achingly beautiful. But Eli is a legacy human, preserved and cherished for his unaltered genetic code, just like the rainforest he paints. When a fugue state possesses him and creates great art, Eli miraculously lands a sponsor for the creative Olympics. If he could just master the fugue, he could take the gold and win the right to ascend, bringing everything he’s yearned for within reach… including his beautiful ascender patron. But once Eli arrives at the Games, he finds the ascenders are playing games of their own. Everything he knows about the ascenders and the legacies they keep starts to unravel… until he’s running for his life and wondering who he truly is.
The Legacy Human is the first in a philosophical HopePunk sci-fi series that explores the intersection of mind, body, and soul in a post-Singularity world.