sunny_care's review
4.0
Just like the first book, Influence, this novella is packed with action.
Humanity's Protectors shows a glimpse of what the world will eventually become in Influence.
Leeyah works mostly in secret for a corporation as their own personal influencer. Her, and people like her, were hired to help the company to gain an upper hand in the corporate world.
The job pays well and, though it's lonely and soul-sucking, Leeyah puts up with it. That is, until the day the company asks her to do something so against her personal morals she refuses.
What follows is probably high up on the "Worst Day Any Teenager Has Ever Experienced" list. Leeyah must flee and fight for her freedom and very life.
Good for people who love stories with a lot of action and adventure and for those who liked Influence and want to know how the world ended up the way it did.
Humanity's Protectors shows a glimpse of what the world will eventually become in Influence.
Leeyah works mostly in secret for a corporation as their own personal influencer. Her, and people like her, were hired to help the company to gain an upper hand in the corporate world.
The job pays well and, though it's lonely and soul-sucking, Leeyah puts up with it. That is, until the day the company asks her to do something so against her personal morals she refuses.
What follows is probably high up on the "Worst Day Any Teenager Has Ever Experienced" list. Leeyah must flee and fight for her freedom and very life.
Good for people who love stories with a lot of action and adventure and for those who liked Influence and want to know how the world ended up the way it did.
cherylanntownsend's review
5.0
Wow! This starts off intense and never lets up. I read this is one sitting and a quick one, at that. A futuristic story revolving around people born with the gift to "push" the minds of others, in some form or another. These "influencers" are highly sought by large corporations to create acceptance to whatever they are marketing. So much so, that the hired are sequestered away form other human contact and doled out assignments. When main character Leeyah opts not to follow her latest task, all Hell breaks loose. I won't give too many details, but the counter-culture saves her from being "erased" and she is taken into another sect as Hell-bent on taking out the Corporate Police as they are them, The "Humanity Protectors".. A riveting read with non-stop action and characters you don't dare begin to like. First in a series, this tightly written tale is destined for the big screen.
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