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Title: Implant

Author: J. Grace Pennington

Narrator: Greg Young

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-17

Publisher: J. Grace Pennington

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Welcome to the world of a universal cure.

Gordon Harding didn't ask for the life he has. He didn't ask to be orphaned. He didn't ask to go through life with cancer. And he certainly didn't ask to be pulled into a future world without warning - a world where every human being is controlled by means of a medical implant.

And when he learns that he's the only one who can destroy the base of operations, he's faced with an impossibly painful choice: either hide and let the world decay under this mysterious futuristic force, or rescue humanity from oppression, knowing that there's someone out there who is willing to use any means necessary to stop him.

Members Reviews:

Control and health, or freedom and death?

I may not have been the intended audience for this book. The pacing is good and the lack of typos and the presence of good grammar and syntax was relaxing. What I found jarring though, was that the story is told from the point of view of an eighteen or nineteen-year-old man, but the voice is that of an eight to eleven-year-old boy. Because of the constant action, I suspect the perfect reader for this book is a grade school or junior high boy.

The book opens with a scene I would have considered to be wildly improbable if I hadn't been on enough autism forums to find out there are bullies out there who act exactly as the characters in this book behaved. And when a character came down with a disease that is fairly easily managed, I was surprised to see it talked about as if it were fatal. Ah, but it's a variant of chronic leukemia that is lethal. Okay.

I found the logistics of the premise improbable (the cost of tracking down and managing seven billion people on this planet far outstrip the ability of anybody or any country or any coalition to accomplish) but I've seen far wilder premises that were easily accepted. The premise did make sense for a first-world country with wide-spread medical capacity (and it's possible that is all the author intended for the story to be about.)

So I had niggles here and there that made this a three star for me. But I also need to say this about the book. The best thing about this book was that this reader honestly had no idea what was going to happen next. After decades of reading science fiction, I've grown a bit jaded about obvious plot points, so that was refreshing. I'm looking forward to following the career of this writer and have already purchased another book by her.

A clean, fairly mellow dystopian thriller

This book is pretty good at being exactly what it advertises itself to be: A clean, fairly mellow dystopian thriller. If you are looking for a "Christian" novel, move on - nothing to see here. God is not mentioned in Implant. At best, this book teaches us that compassion and freedom are supremely important, and that the former is necessary in order to preserve the latter. After I had read it, I felt like I had watched a really good secular movie. (O thou creature of vanishing rarity!) But it didn't inspire me to glorify God, or make me think on the things of Christ.

The lack of a âChristianâ message is not why I gave the book three stars instead of four. I wasn't expecting one, and wouldn't require the book to be something I already knew it wasn't. Implant is a two-way time travel story, and in such stories, some logical issues are unavoidable.