Unplugged

By: Donna Freitas
Location: FIC FRE
Genre: SciFi- technological dystopian

I left my phone at work last night- it was so nice not having it- to be unplugged was wonderful. I chatted to people, made a great phone call to a friend and watched the election debate without hindrance. I must go unplugged more often!

“But the maintenance of two entirely different shelves - one real, one virtual - was confusing and exhausting. People became so addicted to looking at their tablets that they stopped going outside and even stopped talking to their real friends and loved ones. The app world save every one of this division by liberating people from their bodies and allowing them a permanent virtual existence.”

Don’t you ever wish that things could just be…real again?

Skylar still remembers the day she plugged in and joined the App World for the promise of a better life—the day she left her family behind in the Real World. And on her seventeenth birthday, Skylar will have the chance to unplug and see them again, and decide where she belongs once and for all.

But when the border between the worlds suddenly closes, Skylar knows she’s on the wrong side of the divide. She is contacted by people who can smuggle her into the Real World, but there’s a catch: the son of the most powerful leader in the App World is missing in the Real World, and they want her to help find him.

When she discovers that people in both worlds have betrayed her, Skylar realizes that the only person she can trust—in either world—is herself.