Binary – (R)evolution #2 – Stephanie Saulter
Release date: April 3rd, 2014 Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books Age Group: Adult Pages: 400 Format: Paperback Source: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review When confiscated genestock is stolen out of secure government quarantine, DI Sharon Varsi finds herself on the biggest case of her career… chasing down a clever thief, a mysterious hacker, and the threat of new, black market gemtech. Zavcka Klist, ruthless industrial enforcer, has reinvented herself. Now the head of Bel’Natur, she wants gem celebrity Aryel Morningstar’s blessing for the company’s revival of infotech – the science that spawned the Syndrome, nearly destroyed mankind, and led to the creation of the gems. With illness in her own family that…
Gemsigns – (R)evolution #1 – Stephanie Saulter
Release date: March 28th, 2013 Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books Age Group: Adult Pages: 320 Format: Paperback Source: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review Humanity stands on the brink. Again. Surviving the Syndrome meant genetically modifying almost every person on the planet. But norms and gems are different. Gems may have the superpowers that once made them valuable commodities, but they also have more than their share of the disabled, the violent and the psychotic. After a century of servitude, freedom has come at last for the gems, and not everyone’s happy about it. The gemtechs want to turn them back into property. The godgangs want them dead. The norm majority is scared…