After growing up in children’s homes, and learning how to hack the computers that have become so widespread, Raymond Quan has been hired to work on a project that would enable minds to be uploaded into computers. Mark McClelland tells his story in Upload.

He wants to be one of the first human minds uploaded, but this gets complicated by a love interest on his team, and by the reopened case of his employer’s death from when he lived in a children’s home. Now he has to choose between staying in the physical world with his girlfriend, or escape to the virtual world permanently. On top of this, he must stay ahead of those who might find out about the crimes he has committed and the hacking he has become accustomed to doing.

I liked the plot, a story about computers tends to catch my attention quite easily. The story line flowed pretty well, and I didn’t have any trouble following along. But I can’t get passed the explicit language and graphic descriptions of human reactions to man/woman relationships.

The language used put me off; I would have enjoyed the book more if it didn’t have those words and descriptions. I would be willing to read more By Mark McClelland if the language would be cleaner. Also, it seemed like the story ended without being finished. This may have been intentional to leave room for a continuation, but I was a little disappointed in the ending.

I received a free copy of Upload in exchange for this review.