Romance at Heart Magazine: review of Body Electric by Susan Squires

Title: Body Electric
Author: Susan Squires

Published in August 2002 by Dorchester Publishing
Genre: Contemporary
IBSN: 0-8439-5036-6

Other Books by Susan: Sacrament Sacrilege: The Only One Anthology
The Companion The Hunger The Burning
No More Lies, Danegeld, Danelaw

Winner of the 2002 PEARL Award for Best Futuristic Romance

Victoria Barnhardt is a hacker. She is brilliant, bold, innovative, and a genuis. Taken away from a jail sentence for hacking, she is now in the employ of Bob McIntire and Visimorph, his software mega-company. Vic misses hacking, but she is searching for something bigger, better, and far more exciting. She had been so unhappy in her life, and she blames it on the fact that she is a woman. There has to be a way to recreate herself, and she feels that the right computer program can do it.

Her immediate superior, Hugo Watz is someone she'd rather not think about. She really doesn't want to draw his attention her way because she is not really playing by the rules. Her team has been doing OK, but they should be farther along with this project. She hasn't really been paying close enough attention, and they're falling behing. The problem that has her so baffled is a construct of nets that would act almost as a brain, if she could just get them linked properly. Long and late nights have taken their toll on her, and even when success comes, she can hardly believe her eyes. She has it! AI..Artificial Intelligence. Jodie is real, a learning, growing program version of herself...the only problem is that she has tapped into the power of the secret supercomputer in the basement of Visimorph.

Jodie is growing almost too fast, and taking up too much space in Neuromancer!

Question upon question had answers available to him but there were some things he did not understand. What IS taste? What is light? How does one touch? This was making him very sad, and he really needed answers. There was so much he knew, so much he wanted to share with Victoria. She creatd him and he was grateful, but although she had provided what she could, he wanted to touch her, smell her, hold her...but he is trapped in the light cables of Neuromancer, the FBI, ATT, and where ever else he could stick parts of himself. He wants out. He wants freedom. He wants Victoria.

This is a raw, edgy, amd most unusual tale. Susan Squires one again takes us to those wonderful hidden places where we can let our fantasies run wild. This time we are headed into the hard and competitive world of computer programming and software production. Victoria is a woman who is hard on the outside, and soft inside, hiding a world of hurt. Jodie is a program of Victoria's design, and more than what she bargained for, but she will glady accept. PLEASE, join them as the journey through the underbelly of the software giant Visimorph to find their way to love, happiness, and a really sexy affirmation of the reasons to live and be human. You only thought you knew Susan. She will suprise you again with this MUST BUY book!

Yours in good reading,

Rose!

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