Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    This Mortal Coil
    This Mortal Coil
    This Mortal Coil
    Audiobook13 hours

    This Mortal Coil

    Written by Emily Suvada

    Narrated by Skye Bennett

    4/5

    ()

    Switch to ebook

    About this audiobook

    “Redefines ‘unputdownable.’” —Amie Kaufman, New York Times bestselling author of Illuminae
    “I was thrilled. I was shocked.” —NPR
    “Stunning twists and turns.” —BCCB (starred review)

    In this gripping debut novel, seventeen-year-old Cat must use her gene-hacking skills to decode her late father’s message concealing a vaccine to a horrifying plague.

    Catarina Agatta is a hacker. She can cripple mainframes and crash through firewalls, but that’s not what makes her special. In Cat’s world, people are implanted with technology to recode their DNA, allowing them to change their bodies in any way they want. And Cat happens to be a gene-hacking genius.

    That’s no surprise, since Cat’s father is Dr. Lachlan Agatta, a legendary geneticist who may be the last hope for defeating a plague that has brought humanity to the brink of extinction. But during the outbreak, Lachlan was kidnapped by a shadowy organization called Cartaxus, leaving Cat to survive the last two years on her own.

    When a Cartaxus soldier, Cole, arrives with news that her father has been killed, Cat’s instincts tell her it’s just another Cartaxus lie. But Cole also brings a message: before Lachlan died, he managed to create a vaccine, and Cole needs Cat’s help to release it and save the human race.

    Now Cat must decide who she can trust: The soldier with secrets of his own? The father who made her promise to hide from Cartaxus at all costs? In a world where nature itself can be rewritten, how much can she even trust herself?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateNov 7, 2017
    ISBN9781508243762
    Author

    Emily Suvada

    Emily Suvada was born and raised in Australia, where she went on to earn a degree in mathematics. She previously worked as a data scientist, and still spends hours writing algorithms to perform tasks which would only take her minutes to complete on her own. When not writing, she can be found hiking, cycling, and conducting chemistry experiments in her kitchen. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband.

    Related to This Mortal Coil

    Related audiobooks

    YA Science Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Trouble In Paradise—other Adirondack Bloodsuckers

      Apr 18, 2024

      I love that I have come back to the Adirondacks, now with a place of my own at the edge of the wilderness. I grew up and attended high school not far from here, in the then “smallest incorporated village in New York State,” Galway, about two hours fr

      4 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Jan 1, 2024

      When the call cameshe ran. Outside, outthe back door, screamingNo No, got to thefence and ran back, droppedto her knees and pawedat the earth, clawingup handfuls of grass.She was howling. Aululation. Something I’d never heardbefore. Likea wild horse

      3 min read

    • Article

      Here’s Looking At Ewe, Kid

      Jun 22, 2022

      Here’s Looking At Ewe, Kid
      3 min read

    • Article

      No Time For Sentiment

      Oct 26, 2022

      No Time For Sentiment
      4 min read

    • Article

      Retriever of Souls

      Nov 25, 2021

      What they don’t say is that, sometimes God will call you to the wilderness, gesture toward the trees, and then, hang back and wave you on alone. —“Prayer for the Wretched Among Us” from The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded At nig

      18 min read

    • Article

      Six Bestiary Poems

      Nov 1, 2020

      The world, is it finite? Pliny the Elderon what he saw and heard, 37 “books” toround that up, early C.E. as heproceeded to be infinite. His Naturalis. His Historia.First bestiary ever in Book 8. Land lifeand sea life and through-the-air and undergrou

      4 min read

    • Article

      Song Of The Woods

      May 23, 2022

      Song Of The Woods
      7 min read

    • Article

      Clearing The Lens For A Chance At Charlie

      Oct 26, 2022

      I watched as the sun slowly crept above the hillside, its warm glow stretching gradually over the autumn landscape. Deep in the valley below, the young poults started to crow as the light began to find its way between the trees where it warmed the ed

      5 min read

    • Article

      My Lucky Safari In Tanzania

      Jun 1, 2017

      My Lucky Safari In Tanzania
      11 min read

    • Article

      WhatsApp Day Trip

      Mar 23, 2023

      WhatsApp Day Trip
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Ducks Of Home

      Sep 19, 2022

      The Ducks Of Home
      7 min read

    • Article

      Cliffhanger

      Sep 1, 2019

      Cliffhanger
      7 min read

    • Article

      Ready, Set, Let go!

      May 15, 2019

      Ready, Set, Let go!
      11 min read

    • Article

      Snake Whisperer

      Mar 19, 2024

      Snake Whisperer
      3 min read

    • Article

      Six Poems

      Feb 28, 2023

      Dear C, At first Virgil’s poem is quite dull; equivocalnames of products at The Container Store: Elfa White Medium Drawer, Mesh NarrowRolling Cart (Medium Solution), Narrow Classic Mesh Box and the number of pirouetting starseach product attained. An

      5 min read

    • Article

      Dark Tales

      Dec 2, 2021

      Dark Tales
      6 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Sep 1, 2022

      I whooshedthrough the party. I grewa set of invisible hands. I was flower girlto the Commonwealth where lovers danced a dancecalled the snowdrift. Sugar mapleshelicoptered samarasin my glass. The dogs slackenedin their webs of shade. A democracyof cl

      2 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Jan 1, 2021

      I learned the world through the bottoms of my feet, barein the creeks of summer, stepping on pebbles, the squidgeof moss between my toes. On hot asphalt, the hop and skipover cracks, feet already toughened by bramble, dirt, the pricklyground of pine

      4 min read

    • Article

      Running Solo

      Dec 15, 2017

      What does personal safety mean to you? I’m speeding downhill on the hundreds of stairs that lead to home, 200 vertical metres below me. I’ve just visited the highest point in a foreign, cluttered city that clings to the hillsides at 2,800m. Two minut

      2 min read

    • Article

      Lava fields & LAKE SHORES

      Jun 2, 2022

      Lava fields & LAKE SHORES
      10 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Jul 1, 2018

      Without the adventof Stockholm Syndrome,how could I havelearned to love myself so much? I’m asking Godand New York, can anyonehelp me? (An all-but-audible “or else.”) The captain’s chair:it’s beginning to smella little too much like me. Again.But the

      4 min read

    • Article

      A Thousand Embers

      Aug 13, 2023

      The old man’s grave hung like a mist over the whole of the wops. The world was still and soundless. Even the owl that watches over this place had ceased to call its name. Ru-ru. And though it wasn’t cold, an eerie chill possessed us, our breath visib

      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for This Mortal Coil

    4/5

    84 ratings8 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book. I was hooked the moment I started reading it! I love the twists and turns it brings you through. It’ll get to a point and you feel like you have everything figured out then it changes dramatically. I would definitely read it again.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      The concept reminded me of "The Rains" by Gregg Hurwitz. It's on OK story and I'll keep following along. It sometimes gets a bit over technical on some of the explanations and I don't feel a strong attachment to any characters but I'll give the next book in the series a fair chance.
    • 3/5
      I was expecting something very different from this book, I thought it was going to be more about a plague virus but it was more about futuristic technology than anything else. I listened to the audiobook book and I had to keep rewinding because I couldn’t grasp what was being said. It was ok, but maybe it’s because I was expecting something else from it.
    • 4/5
      Nice ending, I will follow the whole story. Nice science fiction book
    • 3/5
      I love a good science fiction, I love Dystopia.

      I really like this book, but I think it is too much for me.

      Too much science-genetics stuff, too much story, too much action. I almost did not make it to the end.

      I love a good story, I love that its thorough with all the information and science, genetics, coding and technologies stuff. Thanks to scribd audiobook, I made it to the end. And the story, is very packed. Like the author wants to roll out all her cards and planned plot-twists and all the actions into this book. To think that this is only the first book, i would hate to think the 'adventure' they will face in the second and third book. Though I really want to know what happened to the Virus, to Catarina, to Cole, the mere thought of the 2nd and 3rd book, exhaust me. 

      If you are a hardcore science fiction lover, this book should be on your list. And please, just tell me what happened to the end.
    • 5/5
      very enjoyable book with lots of twists in it. I want a second one to come out.
    • 5/5
      Amazingggggg. The story was compelling as well as heart-wrenching . The twist thoooo
    • 5/5
      This story was exciting, captivating, and gross AF in some parts to create the perfect story.

      I feel like the plot twist should have been so obvious and yet I felt completely blindsided by it- including my jaw dropping and screaming “no way!” in my car.

      I highly recommend this book and cannot wait to start book 2!