"Clever, creepy, ultra-readable AI inspired thriller"
August 2024 Book of the Month - Reading Age 8+ Interest Age 11+
The arrival of AdelAIDE, a state-of-the-art home-assistant robot, in teenager Freya’s life causes all sorts of tensions in this clever, creepy new thriller, and raises some really interesting questions about the modern temptations of internet fame and the desire for ‘likes’.
Eco-activism has always been Freya’s thing though she can’t help but feel jealous when her former best friend and fellow campaigner Hye-jin gets so much attention, to the point where she’s invited to speak at a UN conference.
When AdelAIDE offers to make Freya popular, it’s easy to accept, and again, when the robot promises to make Freya more popular than Hye-jin. But readers know there’s always a price to pay in this kind of offer and for Freya it’s very high indeed. Melinda Salisbury smoothly mixes the modern world of online influences and TikTok with the sorts of moral lessons that are a staple of traditional tales and the result is a deliciously unsettling story that leaves readers wondering how far they’d go to be famous.
Published by dyslexia specialist Barrington Stoke it’s accessible to all readers.
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