Pia has always known her destiny. She is meant to start a new race, a line of descendants who will bring an end to death. She has been bred for no other purpose, genetically engineered to be immortal and raised by a team of scientists in a secret compound hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest. Now those scientists have begun to challenge her, with the goal of training her to carry on their dangerous work.
For as long as she can remember, Pia’s greatest desire has been to fulfill their expectations. But then one night she finds a hole in the impenetrable fence that surrounds her sterile home. Free in the jungle for the first time in her life, Pia meets Eio, a boy from a nearby village. Unable to resist, she continues sneaking out to see him. As they fall in love, they begin to piece together the truth about Pia’s origin—a truth with nothing less than deadly consequences that will change their lives forever.
Origin is a beautifully told, electric new way to look at an age-old desire: to live forever. But is eternal life worth living if you can’t spend it with the one you love?
Pia took a while to get used to and get her rolling. They really tried to turn her into a sociopath like them. And boy, did the scientists suuuuuck. I mean scientists have sucked like this before but they didn't even give good reasons for doing the experiment for those that signed up voluntarily.
What is the point of immortality? The better reflexes, blah, blah, blah I can see but living forever? Cuz it's not like we're overpopulated as it is, let's add immortality for the rich that are fucking us over! Fan-fucking-tastic. Living forever would be fucking awful, even if you had all the money in the world. People have a hard time already adjusting with the times, can you imagine an immortal dealing with it? I don't see that going well at all. People really don't think shit through.
And what was with the ants? Perfect example of "because I can" thinking. What happened to them? Sucked into a plot hole apparently.
It's comes off as "man becoming god" anti-science rhetoric but science is just a tool, people are the fucking problem. And basically every scientist in this novel is a fucking problem.
Pia and Eio are insta-loves but I enjoyed their time together. I did like the ending but I don't have any desire to continue as a series. I don't really see the point.
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