The Glitch
by Ramona Finn
Genre: YA Dystopian
Release Date: September 5th 2016
Summary from Goodreads:
On the brink of extinction, being human means more than just surviving.
In Lib’s world, it’s dangerous to deviate from the norm. In fact, for someone who doesn’t live up to the Artificial Intelligence’s standards, it’s practically a death sentence. Lib learns this the hard way when she wakes up in a barren wasteland, with her memories erased, and only one thought lodged in her mind:
“It’s all my fault.”
Lib is a Glitch—an imperfect human component of the utopian world called the Norm. Now she’s thrown out, Lib will be forced to team up with another Glitch, Raj, and the mysterious Rogue Wolf and his clan to survive. Wolf only cares about the survival of his group, but Raj thinks they can hack the A.I. and change the Norm for the better.
Now, Lib will have to decide which path to choose—whether to go with striking loner Raj or stay with Wolf and his tight-knit group. Her heart is drawn to both, but she’s carrying a deadly secret that could jeopardize them all. Will she be able to save her newfound family and stop the A.I. before it’s too late?
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Excerpt
The sun
is almost over the wall with shadows long and stretching across half the empty
land when the other girl begins to stir.
Trying
not to startle her, I move close and kneel at her side. I want her to blink. I
want her to wake. I want her to move and speak and tell me how the world works.
Pale
lashes flutter and her lids open. Her eyes startle—they are so blue they seem a
reflection of the sky. I look up just to make sure, but in the end I decide
they’re not an exact match in the shade.
When I
look back to her, those crystal-blue eyes widen. Her nostrils flare and her
skin seems to pale. She tries to scrabble backward, but she can’t move very
well.
I put
out a hand, but I don’t touch her. She looks as if she might become
nonfunctional again if I do. Glancing at my hand, she wets her lips. That
reminds me I’m thirsty, too, but there is nothing here. No water, no food…just
this girl and me. I don’t want to leave here. I need to know what this girl can
tell me about who I am.
“You’re…functional
now?”
As soon
as the words are out of my mouth, she jerks away from me. That’s difficult
given that I’m kneeling so close and she’s lying on the floor. But she manages
it by using her legs to shove herself, digging her heels into the dust and
pushing against cracks in the platform.
I stare
at her and ask, “What are you doing?”
When
her back hits the semi-circle edge of the railing, which I now know is some
kind of connector, she freezes. She glances up at the railing and I can almost
see the realization of what happened click within her eyes.
Instantly,
she looks at me again. “You!” Her voice is high like a squeak almost.
Hope
flutters in my breast. This is where she’ll tell me who I am!
Her
next words rush out with a breath. “You’re
the crazy girl who saved me.”
Disappointment
pulls at my shoulders and I slump back. I don’t know what my expression must
look like, but my lower lip quivers. I don’t even know what my face looks like.
I don’t think it looks like this girl’s, but maybe I’m wrong. Maybe we’re copies.
Maybe all faces look like hers.
“Why am
I crazy?”
She
scoots away from the railing and waves up at it. “You
could have died. So could I. The hack went bad.”
I’m
trying not to react to any of this—it makes no sense. But the girl sees
something in my expression—something telling. Her lips tug down again—she has a
wide mouth. She sits up and puts her elbows on her knees. “You did
save me? Yes?”
I think
about her question. About the electricity, the room, and the firewall inside
the connect. It was a virtual trap. It wasn’t real. But it was out to make her
nonfunctional. Even as fragmented as I am, I know that much. So I nod. “Yes, I
did.”
Ramona Finn writes about courageous characters who fight to live in broken, dystopian worlds. She believes a person's true characters is often revealed in times of crisis, and there is no greater crisis than the worlds that she drops her characters into!
She grew up sitting cross-legged on her town's library floor--completely engrossed in science fiction books. It was always the futuristic world or the universe-on-the-brink-of-extinction plotlines that drew her in, but it was the brave characters who chose to fight back that kept her turning the pages.
Her books create deep, intricate worlds with bold characters determined to fight for their survival in their dystopian worlds--with a little help from their friends. And, of course, romance is never out of the question ;)
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