After Intelligence: The Hidden Sequence
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Publisher Description
Technology simply cannot be uninvented. It can, however, be contained.
Cognation Academy’s invisible passages, floating buildings, and treetop hideaways appear to be powered by magic. Tech giant Cognation Industries, however, doesn’t need magic to make the impossible a reality.
In her second year at the Academy, Charlotte Blythe comes face to face with Cognation’s latest creations in the form of ten new students who are alarmingly real - but not exactly human. This experiment will challenge everything Charlotte thought she believed about her world and force her to make unimaginable decisions as she searches for the hidden truth.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
As 15-year-old Charlotte Blythe and best friends Chai Murthy and Jace Templeton begin their second year at the revered Cognation Academy in the woods of the Pacific Northwest, a set of mysterious, handsome new students is introduced and revealed to be androids, Cognation's newest invention. Assigned the role of android guide and matched with Isaac, whose conduct blurs the line between man and machine, Charlotte must question the morality and dangers behind the experimental technology as they grow closer, while also balancing schoolwork, friendship drama and betrayals, deception on an institutional level, and a potential love interest. When an android is blamed for several attacks on students, and Charlotte's parents remain unreachable for longer than ever before, the teens must interrogate the ethics of created life, re-evaluate their heroes, and concoct a plan to determine the truth. Though complex themes and explanations may deter younger readers, Marie credibly presents the Academy's fascinating class curriculum alongside webs of lies that will keep readers invested in this high-energy, if trope-reliant, whodunit. Ages 14 up. (Self-published)
