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Overview

Once there were three. Three friends who loved each other—Jenna, Locke, and Kara. And after a terrible accident destroyed their bodies, their three minds were kept alive, spinning in a digital netherworld. Even in that disembodied nightmare, they were still together. At least at first. When Jenna disappeared, Locke and Kara had to go on without her. Decades passed, and then centuries.

Two-hundred-and-sixty years later, they have been released at last. Given new, perfect bodies, Locke and Kara awaken to a world they know nothing about, where everyone they once knew and loved is long dead.

Everyone except Jenna Fox.

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Publishers Weekly
Pearson delivers another spellbinding thriller with this sequel to The Adoration of Jenna Fox (2008), which takes place 260 years after the first. Medical advances have finally enabled the disembodied minds of Kara and Locke—who were critically injured in the same car accident as Jenna—to be restored in new, look-alike bodies. Locke narrates, as he and Kara wonder why they have been recreated, what the world holds for them, and if they really qualify as human. "What I think is all I have left," he admits. "My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster." When they learn Jenna has been alive for centuries while their minds existed only in some computer netherworld, they are angry but desperate to find her. The world they re-enter is unfamiliar: civil war has divided the United States, and Mars has been colonized for 150 years. A dazzling blend of science fiction, mystery, and teen friendship drama, Inheritance stands alone, but reading Adoration first will ground readers in the surreal and philosophically challenging terrain on which Pearson is working. Ages 12–up. (Aug.)
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In this sequel to The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Square Fish, 2009/VOYA August 2008), 260 years have passed since Jenna thought she had destroyed the consciousness of her two best friends, Locke and Kara, to save them from the torment of being but not being. Somehow copies of their minds had been made and found by Dr. Gatsbro. He has created another generation of BioGel that he calls BioPerfect. Kara and Locke find themselves contained on Gatsbro's lavish estate. When they realize Gatsbro is using the two of them as "floor models" to sell BioPerfect, Kara and Locke escape. Once in Boston, they are stunned by the changes two and a half centuries have wrought, and change their course to find Jenna, whom they learn is in California. Locke and Kara's reasons for finding her, however, are very different. Kara and Locke split up, and with the help of a Bot named Dot Jefferson; Miesha, a woman from Gatsbro's estate; and others in the underground, Locke finds Jenna and awaits Kara who seems to be playing a deadly game. In this second of a planned trilogy, old and new well-defined characters combine in a mesmerizing tale of escape, revenge, and politics. As in the first installment, Pearson is clearly challenging her readers to think about what makes us human, where ethical boundaries need to be drawn in prolonging a life, and what true friendship means. For libraries in junior and senior high schools that already have the first book, this is a mesmerizing story that will be greeted enthusiastically by Jenna Fox fans. Reviewer: Mary Ann Darby
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School Library Journal
Gr 8 Up—This sequel to The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Holt, 2008) is narrated by Locke, one of Jenna's best friends and fellow car accident victim. After Jenna was given a new body, her friends Kara and Locke's consciousnesses were left in a set of hard drives. Now, 260 years later, they have been given new bodies by the mysterious Dr. Gatsbro, a man who clearly has his own agenda. He has sheltered Kara and Locke from the changes in the world by keeping them on his isolated estate. Locke is haunted by his lost time and disturbed by suspicions that something isn't quite right with Kara. Escape leads to a fast-paced cross-country adventure and search for Jenna, all with the help of a subversive "BioBot" taxi driver. Overall the story is gripping, urgent, and highly appealing, though the political landscape of the future world is underdeveloped and there are some predictable action sequences in the end. Fans of the original novel will enjoy seeing Jenna and learning about her (long) life. New readers are advised to start with the first book.—Eliza Langhans, Hatfield Public Library, MA
Kirkus Reviews

In a thought-provoking, atmospheric follow-up to The Adoration of Jenna Fox (2008), Pearson again contemplates bioengineering and the nature of humanity.

Some 260 years after Jenna Fox's father used controversial technology to upload Jenna's mind into an imitation body, Jenna's friends Locke and Kara, presumed dead in the same car accident, are uploaded into new bodies of their own. Both traumatized and connected to each other by the years their minds spent locked in claustrophobic "environments," the pair live for a year with Gatsbro, the doctor who brought them back. Then Kara discovers the exploitative ends for which he is keeping them, and the two flee their captivity with the (perhaps too convenient) help of an unexpected ally. Their journey from Gatsbro's facility through a greatly changed America and ultimately toward Jenna Fox, still alive in her BioGel body, is harrowing and eye-opening, but the heart of the story is its meditation on what it means to be human. Is Locke human, his consciousness uploaded into a taller, more malleable body? Is Kara, who has lost her compassion? What about Dot, a legless robot engineered only to drive a cab, who is nonetheless strong-willed, brave and rebellious?

Though action scenes are occasionally predictable or over too soon, the book's timely and haunting questions will leave thoughtful readers with much to ponder. (Science fiction. 12 & up)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780805088298
  • Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
  • Publication date: 8/30/2011
  • Edition description: First Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 304
  • Sales rank: 58,595
  • Age range: 12 - 17 Years
  • Lexile: 660L (what's this?)
  • Series: Jenna Fox Chronicles Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.10 (w) x 7.50 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Meet the Author

Mary E. Pearson is the author of bestselling, award-winning novels for teens. The Miles Between was named a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, and The Adoration of Jenna Fox was listed as a Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year, an IRA Young Adult Choice, NYPL Stuff for the Teen Age, and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. She is also the author of A Room on Lorelei Street, David v. God, and Scribbler of Dreams. 

 

Pearson studied at Long Beach State University and San Diego State University. She writes full-time from her home in Carlsbad, California, where she lives with her husband and two dogs. 

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Chapter 1

 

My hands close around the heavy drape, twisting it into a thick cord.

About the same thickness as a neck.

I drop my hands to my sides and wipe them on my trousers like someone might see my thoughts on my palms. Someone like Dr. Gatsbro. I wonder just how much he really knows about me.

I look out the window. From the second floor, Dr. Gatsbro is a speck on the lawn. The girl I’m supposed to know stands a few yards away from him. I watch him talking to her. She ignores him like he is nothing more than vapor. I don’t know if it’s deliberate, or if her mind is trapped, like mine often is, in another dark lifetime that won’t let me go. There’s a lot I don’t understand about her, at least the way she is now, and though I’m a head taller and at least fifty pounds heavier than she is, I’m afraid of her. What is it? Something in her eyes? But I’m not sure I can trust my own eyes yet. Even my hands frighten me. Does Dr. Gatsbro know this too? He seems to know everything.

I turn away, looking at a wall of ancient bound books, and another wall covered with artifacts that reach back to some primordial age. Dr. Gatsbro is a collector. Are we part of his collection? Like stolen paintings that can’t be shown to anyone? Only for private viewing? His estate is miles from anywhere, and we have never been beyond its gates.

He has spent the last year teaching us, helping us, explaining to us, testing us. But some things in this world are unexplainable. Maybe that’s where he made his mistake, especially with us. Three months ago, he stopped being teacher and became prey. At least for her. I fear for him. I fear for me.

I return to the window to see if they’re coming. It’s time for our morning appointment. They’re closer to the house now, but Dr. Gatsbro is still yards from her. I try to read his lips, a skill I never had before, but his hand cups his chin and blocks my view.

Her back is to me. Her head tilts in one direction, and then slowly in the other, like she’s weighing a thought. She suddenly whirls and looks straight up at the window. At me. She smiles, her eyes as cold as ice. Her lips purse together in a kiss, and I feel their frost on my cheek.

I cannot turn away, though I know that would be the safest thing to do. I cannot turn away because she has an advantage over me. I cannot turn away for a reason she knows too well.

Because I love her.

She is all I have left.

I force my legs to move. To step away from the window. One step. Another. The last thing I see is her head toss back as she laughs. I fall backward into Dr. Gatsbro’s chair, running my hands over the arms, listening to the quiet rasp of skin on leather, listening to his antique clock tick, listening to the squeak of the chair as I rock, and finally, listening to their footsteps on the stairs—his, heavy and shuffling; hers, like a cat, following stealthily behind.

“Locke, you’re here. Good.” Dr. Gatsbro crosses the room, and I relinquish his seat to him. He sits down, and I listen to the whoosh of air that leaves the chair under his weight, like the breath has been snuffed from it. “Sorry if we kept you waiting. We lost track of time out in the garden. Isn’t that right, Kara?”

She looks at me, her eyes narrowing to slits, her hair a shiny black curtain barely sweeping her shoulders. Her lips are perfect, red as they have always been, red as I remember, but the smile behind them is not the same.

“That’s right, Doc,” she answers. “Time got away from us.”

“Shall we begin, then?” Dr. Gatsbro asks.

I think she already has.

 

Text copyright © 2011 by Mary E. Pearson

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  • Posted December 31, 2011

    One of my favorite books!

    Pearson is a beautiful writer. she expresses the character's in ways i have never read. i can't believe this isn't more popular. It's just as good as The Hunger games. I love it! Keep on writing, Pearson!

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted March 2, 2012

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    Read It!!!

    This book is great, just like the first! It's so well written & touching. I usually don't care for female authors or romance, but Mary E. Pearson did a great job! This is a book for people who like futuristic slash fantasy slash a little romance.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 4, 2012

    A-ma-zing!

    Peterson can twist ordinary words into an extrodinary book. The Fox Inheritance had everything a good book needs... action, love, despair, and a peek into our future. This is a book that even the most critical critics with fall in love with!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 19, 2012

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    Please i love it so much i would give t 50 stars

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 1, 2012

    So good i didnt want it to end

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 28, 2011

    Good

    Nice sequel to The Adoration of JennaFox! PHYSCHED FOR MORE!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 27, 2011

    It was great

    Amazing i loved it very intresing mary e. Pearson can't wait for the next 1!!!

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  • Posted October 10, 2011

    Even better

    Really enjoyed this follow-up to The Adoration of Jenna Fox - I liked the pace of this book even better. Fascinating to see the progression of the world, what happens to Jenna's friends, and revisiting Jenna's home. Hoping there is a third!

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  • Posted August 31, 2011

    Great Read - Wonderful sequel!

    Great sequel to the Adoration of Jenna Fox, explains how the world works in Jenna's future and what happened to Kara and Locke. It was a fast paced read but very detailed, I can't wait for the conclusion! Great work Mary Pearson!

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