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Augusta Pine Does Not Exist is the latest novel from author Emilly Lloyd-Jones. And it’s one you will want to read in one sitting, as you will not be able to put it down once you start reading it.
Everyone thinks she’s dead. Turns out she went undercover.
In the near future, to combat identity theft, paper and plastic IDs have been replaced with permanent biometric tattoos. But governments still need people to work in the shadows. These people are called wraiths.
THEN
When she was fifteen, Augusta Pine (alias) hacked a car’s autopilot and accidentally killed her first crush. She was given two options: 1) Spend twenty years in prison for manslaughter or 2) serve ten years in the Identity Security Division as a wraith – an undercover spy with no official existence. Augusta chose the second.
NOW
Eighteen-year-old Augusta has no fixed home and all her family think she died in the car crash. Her only friends are her coolly professional handler, Prefect, and a snarky sentient Al spybot called Edgar. On a rare weekend to herself, she decides to rent a room in a smart apartment complex and makes grand plans to do nothing but relax . . . until six cyber criminals hack the building and imprison all the residents.
To save everyone, Augusta will have to rely on her wits and her own criminal skills to stay one step ahead of the killers. For the first time in her life, could it pay to not exist?
Augusta Pine Does Not Exist is one of my favourite reads of this year, and in all honestly as I was not expecting it to be. I was lucky enough to be sent an ARC, so I put it on my TBR and made a mental note to read it before July, as I thought it sounded good, but I had other things to read first, as you do….
So fast forward to reading it, and wow, I was blown away and absolutely hooked by the story. From the very first page I fell in love with Augusta, a flawed, opinionated, messy but lovey teen who is just trying to get by in this crazy new life she has.
It’s fast-paced, high-stakes, and utterly brilliant. I’ve read it a few times since the first read, and I fall in love with it even more with every re-read/
If you enjoy action-packed heist novels with brilliant heroines, then this one is a must-read!
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