Youre Safe Here, Leslie Stephens
Youre Safe Here, Leslie Stephens
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You're Safe Here

Author: Leslie Stephens

Narrator: Carlotta Brentan

Unabridged: 11 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/25/2024


Synopsis

Wellness, motherhood, and technology converge in a near future California, as three women’s seemingly innocuous decisions have further-reaching consequences than any of them could imagine in this timely, clever, and white-knuckled thriller that “is dystopia at its best” (Booklist).

In 2060, the WellPod is the latest launch from the largest tech company the world has ever seen—a fleet of floating personal paradises scattered throughout the Pacific Ocean, focused entirely on health, solitude, and relaxation. Created by an enigmatic founder who will stop at nothing to ensure her company’s success, it is the long-awaited pinnacle of wellness technology. For newly pregnant Maggie, the six-week program is the perfect chance to get away…especially since the baby isn’t her partner’s.

Noa Behar isn’t a perfect fiancée. She’s too distracted, too focused on her work in helping program the WellPod to give Maggie the attention she deserves. But when she discovers something rotten beneath WellPod’s shiny exterior—a history of faulty tech and dangerous cover-ups—she knows one thing: she’ll do whatever it takes to keep Maggie safe.

The problem? The malfunctioning WellPods are already at sea. And there’s a storm coming…

A fast-paced and compelling thriller, You’re Safe Here “serves up twists on twists on twists, building to an ending that no amount of AI-powered computing could ever hope to predict” (Nick Fuller Googins, author of The Great Transition).

About Leslie Stephens

Leslie Stephens is the creator of the popular newsletter Morning Person. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of BooksEater, and other outlets including Cupcakes & Cashmere, where she worked as an editor. A graduate of Wellesley College, she is currently earning her master’s in counseling, with specializations in addiction and ecotherapy, from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where she lives with her pit-mix, Toast. You can find her at LeslieStephens.com and subscribe at MorningPersonNewsletter.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Hayley on July 08, 2024

WHAT is what my brain was screaming as soon as I finished this book, which could be the mark of a great book but is certainly the mark of an unsatisfying one. The ending left me wanting so much more, probably because this book goes into such agonizing detail about so many things in a sometimes confus......more

Goodreads review by Stacy40pages on June 21, 2024

You’re Safe Here by Leslie Stephens. Thanks to @gallerybooks for the gifted Arc ⭐️⭐️⭐️ It’s 2060 and a tech company has just launched WellPod- floating pods in the Pacific Ocean that bring the user a solitary, personal relaxation experience. Noa’s finance, Maggie, is in a pod, when Noa finds out the......more

Goodreads review by Ashly on July 14, 2024

I was super on board with this book until a little over halfway through when the super wild twist started to reveal itself. The concept and world is exactly what I look for in a sci-fi, but unfortunately the plot leaves a lot to be desired. At the end, I’m still left with questions and am not really......more

Goodreads review by Porshai on December 13, 2023

3.25 ⭐️ This is probably my favorite ARC I have read all year. While I quite enjoyed the queer, science fiction, impending doom feelings, I just feel like it was missing something. For having quite the premise, aka a wellness pod floating in the ocean where the person inside is doing yoga, drinking......more

Goodreads review by Kelley on January 24, 2024

I’m so glad I stumbled upon this ARC at the bookstore I work at. It’s not quite dystopian, but it is a novel about technology and some of the woes it can create. Most books that describe tech that isn’t invented yet are so hard for me to picture- that is not the case with this one. The writing is ab......more