The play is full of religious images and this is one of them, relating directly to the Christian idea of eternal life after death, and expressed, as is so often the case, in terms of the nature all around Shakespeare as he grew up in Warwickshire.
This mortal body, this mortal existence, but mainly this messy and painful reality, that many times people decide to put an end to. Why has no one suggested that it could have originally be mortal caul? The caul is the membrane the covers the body of a baby.
Similarly the body covering the soul could be seen as a caul, and it is certainly mortal. The mortal coil is the knot of the rope of the hanged man. After a man dies by hanging and is lying in the ground, someone would shuffle the mortal coil out of his neck.
DNA is wrapped like a coil. Yes, it would have been impossible for Shakespeare to have know about DNA. This could have been something I missed while reading and left me confused later on, but I nonetheless I enjoyed this book immensely. Furthermore, the author of this book is Australian. In this world, there is no cure for a virus besides eating the flesh of the infected.
Resources are dwindling away and friendships no longer matter in the circumstances of life. The plot was incredibly interesting to me. I was completely absorbed and unable to look away. It barely mattered that I was staying with my friend because I finished this book in two days. It was amazing. The author includes so many jaw-dropping moments in the pages that truly leave you wanting more of her writing and world building. I really feel Cat is truly the most important character, as well, especially with how this book ends.
Which may be why I stay very far away from dystopian and science fiction novels. Terminology is lost on me and I truly am just stumped. However, Catarina was the perfect main character. Sure, some parts were a tad confusing for me but seriously, I know nothing about tech but I really feel like each component was explained in a way that the most clueless person me could understand what was happening.
In terms of Cat as a character, she was incredible. I personally found her wholly unique and unlike any other character, I have personally read about. I absolutely adore discovering characters like that too, ones that are so unlike others. Cat had fear, she had distress and she had moxie to reference one of my favourite books. This Mortal Coil definitely hits straight into my favourite books of the year.
Not bad at all. Was so into this book but there was so much underlying and bringing the girl Cole is missing up that you have a feeling what is coming when the big twist is revealed.
As for some of the other characters, I honestly had a love hate with some, like Dax. However, this was a really good read. I was really entertained by this book. My quick and simple overall: very intriguing. It reminded me of a mix between Divergent meets the Walking Dead, which is pretty cool. The earth is a desolate wasteland, a virus decimating humanity, survivors abandoned to starvation. Catarina Agatta is a survivor. Catarina is the seventeen year old daughter of the renowned geneticist Lachlan Agatta, a magnate and former Cartaxus programmer and genetic engineer, now recaptured along with his assistant to manufacture an antidote.
Catarina has survived within the isolated Black Hills, a resourceful young woman evading Cartaxus capture. At birth, humans are implanted with advanced t The earth is a desolate wasteland, a virus decimating humanity, survivors abandoned to starvation. At birth, humans are implanted with advanced technology to allow gene manipulation, applications are downloaded to enhance humans physically, cognitively and aesthetically.
Diagnosed with Hypergenesis, Catarina remains genetically unenhanced, relying upon her intellect and perception to survive.
As the pandemic escalates, thousands shelter in underground communities, sacrificing their freedom to Cartaxus. Although an agent of Cartaxus and a young man with enhanced abilities, disciplined in warfare, Lieutenant Cole Franklin has been assigned to protect Catarina after an explosion at the Cartaxus laboratory claimed her father and the vaccine. Humanity will depend on Catarina. The essence of This Mortal Coil is genetic manipulation and biotechnology, developed by Lachlan Agatta and administered to infants as nanotechnology.
It allows programmers to create applications that download directly into the body, collaborating with our human genetics. Cartaxus monopolises the genetic applications, abandoning and denying survivors essential health enhancements. The airborne virus infects healthy humans, accelerating before causalities detonate, bodies vaporising into a contagious, airborne cloud. Survivors can inoculate themselves by consuming the flesh of those infected, ensuring their immediate survival but Catarina is determined to preserve her humanity.
The scientific elements are surprisingly uncomplicated and woven throughout the narration, rather than overhwleming expositions. Catarina's relationship with her father Lachlan is portrayed as distant and indifferent, a young woman pursuing approval. Catarina begins a tentative relationship with Lachlan's assistant, a conventional young man who also appeared manipulative and egotistical. Their relationship seemed little more than based on convenience and no genuine connection between the two other than her father.
Catarina reluctantly establishes a companionship with Cole and I enjoyed their interactions. The attraction between the two is undeniable but Cole is preoccupied with the former Cartaxus programmer, the mysterious Jun Bei.
Catarina is physically malnourished, she refuses to allow Cole to become her saviour and appreciated that although intellectually superior, is never pretentious or conceited. Oh and those plot twists. Surprised eyebrows for days. This Mortal Coil is an intelligent, captivating and atmospheric science fiction dystopian. Absolutely phenomenal. Oct 25, Justine rated it it was amazing Shelves: favourites , read. I loved the worldbuilding with all the built-in tech that people have for "genehacking".
It was both brilliant and scary. The story was exciting and fast-paced, and I didn't see the ending coming. I'm absolutely in for the next book. View all 7 comments. Oct 29, Jen Ryland added it Shelves: smells-like-a-triangle , bea Try it I guess So I did and I dislike virus books and am not a huge fan of triangles but I actually liked this. First off, this DOES have a love triangle and if anyone says it doesn't, I'm not sure they understand the concept.
The main character has a guy in h Ahhhhh The main character has a guy in her sort of past, a guy who worked in her father's lab who she had a huge crush on and who has been cruelly ripped out of her life and out of the picture. She's clearly moping about him. Let's call him Gale. Whoops, sorry. Let's call him Guy 1. So of course Guy 2 shows up, and he's been scientifically enhanced by her father to protect her and so has a sort of in 80s movie references The-Bodyguard-meets-The-Terminator twisted appeal.
Was this book slow? It didn't feel like it to me. Were the characters flat? Kinda, but that's a common thing in action-heavy books and I didn't find it a big problem. Was it the coolest sci-fi of all time? I don't read that much sci-fi but probably not. Was it one of the better YA sci fi books I've read recently? This book had SO many tropes and yet I thought they worked, for the most part. The love triangle. The sort-of forbidden love with the bodyguard, who is in love with a mysterious missing coder.
A virus. A mysterious missing character. I figured out this plot twist right away. Probs because I just saw a version of it in two different YA books recently. There's also a lot of science here -- coding and nanotechnology and viruses both the medical kind and the computer kind I think that I don't completely understand, but it worked well enough for me as a non-science person. Looks like this book will be the first in a trilogy, so If you like sci-fi and are not completely averse to love triangles, I say Read more of my reviews on JenRyland.
View all 6 comments. For a start we have genuinely likable characters, none of whom are in any way generic, who you almost immediately care about and by the end of the novel you are entirely attached to. Secondly Ms Suvada manages to avoid almost everything passe and overdone in your classic YA post apocalyptic story and makes the genre seem fresh as the morning sun — her romance threads are realistic, her relationship building is highly natural and the world building is subtle, immersive and well achieved.
Rather than stick with your everyday virus she has created a truly fascinating, scientific geek heaven, honestly believable outbreak and rather than zombies she has….
This is one of those truly immersive novels where you live in it for the moment, a proper page turner that will appeal to all ages, it is an adventure of the classic kind brought into modern times with socially relevant themes running throughout.
The ending will have you up out of your chair, a kind of fist pumping but dammit now I have to wait reaction that encompasses all that has gone before it into one big bubble of reading trauma. Beautifully written, skillfully plotted with that touch of subtle intuitive storytelling that makes a book a word of mouth success, I am rather hopeful that movies and the suchlike will follow.
Highly Recommended. Feb 22, Marissa rated it liked it Shelves: books-i-own , science-fiction , signed-books , beautiful-cover , book-club , plagues-and-diseases. I did really enjoy this book and can't wait to pick up the next book. Something I did struggle with was getting into the story. Oct 11, Lia rated it it was amazing Shelves: sci-fi-dystopic. What immediately grabbed me from the start and impressed me was the writing style. From the very first line, it intrigued me. The writing is vibrant and colorful, and I absolutely loved it.
If a book can grab me with the writing, it says a lot, and this book could. The premise itself is not that original, actually, it is not at all original at the first glance. It is about a girl surviving in a post-apocalyptic world, with zombie-like humans, corrupt corporations, and a plague. But despite its unoriginal premise, the story is completely new and different.
It brings many new aspects and interesting things to the table. Her words are clipped and sharp. She speaks the way a rife fires. She is steel and glass and blood fused into a blade. I loved the gene-hacking and coding aspect to the story. There are many scientific descriptions about how it works, but it wasn't overwhelming. What Emily Suvada did really well is to describe scientific things in a simple but realistic way. The world felt so much more realistic due to the scientific aspect of the story.
It also made me think about how gene-hacking which basically means you manipulate your genes would work in the real world and it felt like the things that happened there, would also be able to happen here. The word was here before I was born, and it will be keep spinning after I am dead. The universe is continuous; I am the anomaly. I am the thread that begins and ends, the flame that sputters out.
A chance collection of proteins and molecules that perpetuates itself, bound by the electric fire of my mind. The characters were all really great and multi-faceted. I loved Catarine and Cole and I thought they made a great duo. Cat was smart and determined and wanted to do the right thing. She was also funny at times, which I really liked.
The only character that I didn't really like was Dax who is Cat's ex , but the sole reason for that was that he kept calling Cat "Princess". The one thing that annoyed me mildly was the romantic storyline, which I thought was a little unnecessary. But that's probably just my romance-aversion talking. I feel like I got shot in the back. I am giving it 4. I really loved it! I am not giving it 5 stars because the romance was a little unnecessary and there was no diversity in it.
Jun 13, Waqar Arif rated it it was amazing. Did that roller coaster just stop for a while? I wasn't prepared for such a fantastically written sci-fi thriller. This book got everything. After facing a huge traumatic incident, now she only had one mission: To fight Hydra virus which is an imminent threat to mankind. Her struggle was greatly portrayed throughout the book.
Her 'unexpected pair' turned the tables and it completely changed the gesture of storyline. Sometimes we need to do awful things to stop worse things from happening. No, of course not, sadly this is my mistake time and time again, believe the hype because that's where my expectations go crazy high and I expect perfection in every part of the story.
Although I enjoyed this book I dont believe its as amazing as everyone says it is, I mean yes some parts were amazing, but not the book as a whole. Rolling in like dust clouds, there is no cure, but there is a rather brutal way of immunizing one's self for short periods of time. In this futuristic world, gene hacking is the norm; Everyone having a panel in their arm where apps to improve their bodies improve eyesight, strength, cure diseases, etc can be downloaded.
Catarina Agatta is a skilled hacker and survivor, with her geneticist father taken two years before by Cartaxus, a suspicious government company, she now lives alone trying to survive. When a Cartaxus soldier, Cole, comes to her, with a message from her father before his tragic death, Catarina isn't sure what to believe. Her father has left her instructions on how to release a vaccine into the world but a soldier from Cartaxus cannot be trusted, not after taking her father away from her.
Together, Catarina and Cole must survive, steal and decrypt in order to save the world from the Hydra virus.
This is a fast-paced, action-packed ride, with heaps of science fiction. My favorite part of this story was definitely the science fiction aspects, the hacking, the virus, the mutations and the panels. My nerdy heart was living for every part that went in depth about the science aspect of things. Not only was it well done but it was also really easy to understand, which makes me think ALOT of planning went into creating this world.
Which leads me to the world building, it was really well done and thought out to every last detail. I enjoyed the characters, although I dont like the directions their stories went, the romance and love triangle especially. It felt kind of lacking when it came to reveals as well, and it was a little too tropey for me personally. Cole also has this protection protocol thing with Catarina that her father installed in him, meaning he pretty much sees her as a defenseless girl with no ability to protect her whatsoever although she lived alone and survived for two years!
I get her father just wanted to make sure she was protected by holy fuck it annoyed me. In saying this, I will continue on with the next book as I would like to see where the story goes especially when it comes to the characters and the world itself. Although this book wasn't as amazing as so many others said it was, and the hype may have contributed to my high expectations and my disappointment in some areas, there are aspects I really enjoyed and cannot wait to see more of. Blind Bleeding The Blind 9.
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