What connects a new highly addictive gaming app, viral
conspiracy theories by the mysterious Dark Court, and a fatal insomnia pandemic?
Enter Lilith King, the world’s most famous cybercrime detective.
Lilith had always known she was different. Attitude to burn,
for one thing. The strange chanting in her head since she was seven, for
another. And then, the Aura, the sensory disturbance that makes her sick to the
pit of her stomach, seemingly coinciding with the new, strange apparition
that’s haunting her. She also has the ability to solve crime through touch
alone. Together with Dr. Kace Westwood, a sleep specialist genius and a freak like
her, Lilith must figure out whether the deadly insomnia pandemic is linked to
the vagus chip implants being offered to all qualifying Unskills. Or are
people’s language chips being hacked? And why is only the lowest soc-ed class
being targeted?
The End of Sleep
(Songs of the Sage, book one) by Vyvyan Evans
Start date: May 9,
2022
End date: May 12,
2022
Rating: ½ out of 5
stars
Content warning: rape, sexism, classism, transphobia
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book in exchange for
my honest review.
Hold onto your hat because there’s
a lot to unpack.
The End of Sleep takes place about 110 years in the future. None of our current countries exist, but there’s still a United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), and North American Treaty Organization (NATO). There used to be an international law mandating that all newborns be surgically implanted with language chips (in addition to the various other cybernetic parts that everyone has), but following the Great Language Outage, that law was repealed. People still install the chips in infants, though, because they don’t want their children to be “left behind” in this modern world. Countries are labeled by tiers (Tier One, Tier Two, Tier Three) that relate to how much the country depends on technology with Tier One (cough, first world, cough) being the highest.