The Body Electric

by Beth Revis

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The Body Electric is a difficult books to put into words. It’s a deliberately paced story set in on a futuristic Earth, with so many twists and turns that it kept me guessing and intrigued.

Ella is the daughter of two well respected scientists. Her father, now dead, helped developed nanobots that encourage good health and help with day to day tasks. Her mother, develops the Reverie, a type of memory chamber that allows the person to visit their memories and live them for a short people of time. When the threat of terrorist arise their leader approaches Ella with the chance to help stop the plot, unfortunately the moment she agrees her world becomes one filled with lies and intrigue. I absolutely loved all of the cool technology that Revis included, from the nanobots in everyone’s system to the androids meant to help with task. The world that she paints is one attempting to (and in some ways both succeeding and failing at) recover from a war that took place well before Ella was born. We see the prosperity and the poverty, and the price that each one costs. And to top off the cool factor there is even mention of the Godspeed from Revis’ other novel Across the Universe. The plot does slow down towards the middle, making it feel longer than it really was but once it picked back up it didn’t really slow down again.

Ella’s journey to save her family is one that had me on edge. She takes a bunch of risks, not with the intention of taking down a government (she’s very level headed) but the with intention of saving the people she loves.

The Body Electric is definitely one of those tales that seems to be cautionary, and why the technology is incredibly cool it does make you it does make you think twice about ever wanting it to go so far. If you have read Revis’ other books then i definitely think this one is worth grabbing. If you haven’t and you enjoy a true sci-fi novels with some bizarre and sometimes chilling twists, then go find a copy!