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Welcome to Mysteries to Die For and this Toe Tag.

I am TG Wolff and am here with Jack, my piano player and producer. This is normally a podcast where we combine storytelling with original music to put you at the heart of mystery, murder, and mayhem. Today is a bonus episode we call a Toe Tag. It is the first chapter from a fresh release in the mystery, crime, and thriller genre.

Today\u2019s featured release is THE ALGORITHM WILL SEE YOU NOW by JL LYCETTE. THE ALGORITHM WILL SEE YOU NOW was released from Black Rose Writing and is promoted by Partners In Crime Tours and is available from AMAZON LINK and other book retailers.

ABOUT JL Lycette

JL Lycette is a novelist, award-winning essayist, rural physician, wife, and mom. Mid-career, she discovered narrative medicine on her path back from physician burnout and has been writing ever since. Her first novel, The Algorithm Will See You Now, was a 2023 SCREENCRAFT CINEMATIC BOOK COMPETITION FINALIST, 2023 READER'S FAVORITE BRONZE MEDAL WINNER in the Medical Thriller category, 2023 MAXY AWARD'S FINALIST \u2013 Thriller category, and 2023 PAGE TURNER AWARD'S FINALIST \u2013 Best Debut Novel category. The prequel, The Committee Will Kill You Now, was released November 9.

TG WOLFF REVIEW

THE ALGORITHM WILL SEE YOU NOW is a Medical Thriller. Dr. Hope Kestrel is the top resident at the most cutting-edge hospital in the country, where data and algorithm solve medicals toughest challenges. Hope believes the data-driven science saves people from the pain of ineffective treatments and the illusions of false hope. With one mistake, Hope falls from the top to outcast and along the way, learns the system she built her career around has been manipulated for profit\u2019s sake. Now Hope has a choice\u2026fade into a sad memory or fight her way out.

Bottom line: THE ALGORITHM WILL SEE YOU NOW is for you if you like medical and conspiracy thrillers where a thin line separates reality and science fiction.

Strengths of the story. The first star of the story is the premise. The book is set in 2035, extrapolating a world built from the concepts of our current American health system and the potential of artificial intelligence. While reading it, I have thoughts of Mary Shelley\u2019s FRANKENSTEIN \u2013 not for the monster but for the way fiction was used to explore the ideas of what science and technology should do and what it shouldn\u2019t do. In Lycette\u2019s world, DNA sequencing is used to identify which patients will respond to treatments and which ones will not. The \u201cnon-responders\u201d as they are called, are written off and all but cut off from a health care system unwilling to invest limited resources in a no win case.

One of the best and most terrifying things about THE ALGORITHM WILL SEE YOU NOW is that it is easy to imagine as our future reality.

Lycette\u2019s experience in the medical industry shines through with the informed construction of the interworkings of the hospital system. This isn\u2019t a story about diseases and their treatment but about the people \u2013 patients, loved ones, doctors and nurses.

The story itself is very well crafted. Standing at the end and looking back, the logic holds. The conspiracy is straightforward, with the question being more about what was done than who did it. There are several high-tension moments, and they seldom resolve the way I expected them to.

Where the story fell short of ideal: There were not many weak points in this story. It does take a little time to reveal the main plot and get into the thriller. Whether this is too long will vary by reader, but it does give us time to see Hope\u2019s \u201cnormal life\u201d and learn about the hospital and the technology. Because this is a medical thriller, the tension is intellectual rather than physical.

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