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Chipless
by Kfir Luzzatto
Series: City #1
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Published by Pine Ten on May 1st 2018
Genres: New Adult Dystopian Sci-Fi
Format: Kindle
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In a post-apocalyptic, dystopian society, health authorities implant a chip in the brain of every infant to prevent the spread of disease. But the rulers exploit the chip to manipulate the population and to create a distorted vision of the world. When Kal, a young physicist, accidentally discovers the truth about the chip, his life is in danger.
But Kal is not alone. Amber, a young, chipless girl from a distant society, who is on a personal mission, helps him to get away before the city police find him. The knowledge that Kal holds is a potent weapon against the tyranny of the rulers, and he has no choice but to join Amber and her fellow rebels in fighting them.
Kal and Amber escape together from the city, but the hunt for them is on. They must travel through dangerous, lawless territories to reach a safe destination. It’s a race in which time is running out for Kal. If they don’t make it in time, both his life and the hope of fighting the city tyrants will be lost.
Can Amber get Kal to safety before its too late?
Chipless by Kfir Luzzatto is a good book. It took me a bit longer to read this one but I don’t mind. Mr. Luzzatto was able to make a very compelling story. We had two main characters Kal and Amber and it was told in the point of view of the third person. This book is very different from other books like it.
What I liked:
- Kal is an interesting character. He has spent most of his life in The City and thanks to that he is naive to so many things, that no one else but people living in The City, would be naive about. He is also very important for both sides in this book.
- Amber is another interesting character. As she grew up outside of The City and only went in for her own personal reasons. Of course, that all goes south because of Kal and she has to get him to safety. Reluctantly at first but that’s the way it goes.
- There is a certain part in this book that reminds me of Mad Max: Fury Road. Mostly with how the cars look.
- I think that writing this novel in the third person point of view works best. I don’t think it would have held my attention if it was first person point of view. Even if Mr. Luzzatto went back and forth between Kal and Amber.
What I didn’t like:
I didn’t like how Kal and Amber kept on getting separated and how they had to find each other. This happens a lot. Sometimes I didn’t like how Amber was treating Kal and especially forcing him to do things that he didn’t like. Even though it did help them survive. I didn’t like the slow pace that was going on for most of the book. I mean I get for world-building. However, if it makes me fall asleep then that’s no good.
What I am curious about:
- Was what Kal did good enough?
- Will they be able to stop The City?
Four Stars
Chipless by Kfir Luzzatto is a good book and one that I am giving four stars. The reason for the four stars is that I was able to set it aside for days and I didn’t think about the book or the characters as often as I would have liked. I would recommend this book to anyone that reads this type of genre.
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About Kfir Luzzatto
I was born and raised in Italy, and moved to Israel as a teenager. I acquired the love for the English language from my father, a former U.S. soldier and WWII veteran, a voracious reader and a prolific writer. With a PhD in chemical engineering and a long family history that I need to live up to, I work as a patent attorney and head the patent law firm that was established by my great-grandfather in Milan, Italy, in 1869. I live in Omer, Israel, with my full-time partner, Esther, our four children, Michal, Lilach, Tamar and Yonatan, and the dog Elvis. Writing has always been my passion and for almost four years I wrote a weekly “Patents” column in Globes (Israel’s financial newspaper), which also yielded my non-fiction book, THE WORLD OF PATENTS, (a not-so-boring tale of what patents are about, in Hebrew), which was published in 2002 by Globes Press. Since then, although I vowed not to spend time on non-fiction books, I released a new, more international and more comprehensive book, FUN WITH PATENTS, published in February of 2016. I love writing short stories but I have too many novels waiting to be written (and possibly not enough years ahead of me to write them all), so now I mostly write full-length fiction. My other passion is working with other authors on stories I love and that’s how I wound up serving on the editorial board of The Harrow Press as Anthology Editor until the end of 2014, when The Harrow Press folded its tent. You can read about my books through my Amazon link, Goodreads link, or at my website. I love them all, but I never had greater fun than when working on “HAVE BOOK WILL TRAVEL”, a YA fantasy that I wrote together with my son, Yonatan.
Reading this book contributed to these challenges:
- 2018 Goodreads Reading Challenge
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