Here's the customary plot:
Doppelgängers, corporate intrigue, heartbreak, betrayal, and the harsh permanence of the border: Sublimation is a thrilling and provocative debut for fans of Severance that asks what you'd sacrifice for a different life from award-winning author Isabel J. Kim.
The border cuts you in two.
When you immigrate, you leave a copy of yourself behind, an
instance. One person enters their new country; the other stays trapped
at home.
Some instances keep in touch, call each other daily,
keep their lives and minds in sync in the hopes of reintegrating and
resuming a life as one person. Others, like Soyoung Rose Kang, leave
home at ten years old and never speak to their other selves again. Rose,
in America, never imagined going back to Korea until her grandfather
died and her Korean instance called her home for the funeral.
She doesn’t know that Soyoung plans to steal her body and her life.
How far would you go to live the choice you didn’t make?
My review:
This is an eARC that I was approved for from Netgalley.
I have never read anything that was in the genre of Speculative fiction. So, all this is new to me. This is a good thing to read a slightly different genre.
With my first sit down to read this book, I ended up reading to 19%. So far, it was holding my attention. The concept was pretty good.
This book is a bit weird. Not in a bad way. Just weird. It's still holding my attention at the 56% mark. Now, I'm at the point that I want to know what happens with the characters.
There's a little bit of mystery in this book. That's a reason why to keep reading. You want to know what will or will not happen.
After 80%, the story really picked up and got more of a faster pace. You really wanted to know what and how things were going to happen. The ending was a nice surprise. I didn't see that happening.
Now, this world was well thought out. The way that people split or instanced was well done. The characters were well thought out too. You felt like you knew them personally.
If this book was a standalone or if there's a part 2, I'd definitely want to read it. If it remains a standalone, that's fine too, as the ending was satisfying.
I'll give this book a solid 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐. The only reason why I didn't give it 5, was because of the little bit of extra story in each chapter. I understand why it was given. It gave you some explanation as to why this world had instancing.
All in all, I do recommend you to read this book. I really did enjoy it.
