Book Review
Title: You Have Arrived at Your Destination (Part 4 in the Forward Collection)
Author: Amor Towles
Genre: YA/Sci-Fi/Short Story
Rating: ****
Review: This is first story in the Forward Collection that I am not giving five stars. I have a specific reason for this and it is that the whole story felt a bit disjointed and you couldn’t really figure out what was going on. You Have Arrived at Your Destination follows Sam and his wife, who are considering using a new fertility lab, Vitek to conceive a child. Vitek doesn’t just deal with the physical aspects of IVF but allows parents to pick their child’s personality as well.
In the beginning Sam’s wife has already been to the clinic and picked out three personalities for Sam to choose from for their son Daniel. At first, Sam is really onboard with the idea and is excited but after witnessing Daniel’s potential futures, Sam is concerned about the life his son might have using Vitek. After leaving Sam ends up at a bar where he meets a man who is a bit of a nutter, who tells Sam that Vitek is using their DNA to engineer the perfect soldiers and he changes his mind.
Without informing his wife he returns to the clinic to get his sperm back and ends their journey for a child there and then. The reason I gave this four stars was because for the early part of the story it was interesting but for Sam to dismiss using Vitek based on the word of a mad man rather than is own informed opinions was a bit of stupid motive and the story did have a really good message that it was trying to convey but it got lost in the delivery.
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Also see: Ark by Veronica Roth
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