Or what about altering some other genes? Should we really modify who we are, just because we can? It’s something to think about. Is it okay to take a drug to make yourself a better person? Sure, there’s things like antidepressants to help you feeling better about yourself, or ADD to help nip those symptoms, but the drug in Charisma is a whole different level since it alters your actual genes to makes you more confident, more social, and more popular.
The others who were given Charisma weren’t overly involved in the book I feel they should have been made a little more important in the plot other than the fact that they received the drug and were now in comas. I also liked the ethical issues Charisma brings up regarding gene therapy. The only other main character there really was in this story was Shane. I liked seeing Aislyn grow as a person when you compare who she was at the beginning of the story and who she was at the end. Story wise, I also felt that Charisma was rather predictable in its writing, another turn off.Įven with Charisma’s predictability in mind, I enjoyed story. Such striking similarities in how the story line developed between the two was a bit of a turn off for me. But neither the drug in Charisma or the game in Nerve is perfect, and things go wrong and have to be fixed as soon as possible.
They fix this by taking a drug (Charisma) or playing an extreme game (Nerve). A girl is shy (Charisma) or is said to be boring (Nerve). While I realize that this book came before Nerve, I found the two to have rather similar plots. The doctor who created and administered Charisma is now conveniently nowhere to be found. She’s not the only one who was given the drug, and others who have taken it have fallen into comas.
After some internal debate, she goes ahead and takes it. She’s told that Charisma will get rid of her shyness and make her one who stands out – on the condition that she tells nobody. It’s about a girl named Aislyn who has crippling social anxiety. She’s offered an underground gene therapy drug named Charisma by a doctor she trusts. I saw Nerve when it was in theaters last summer, and because it’s based off Jeanne Ryan’s second book I went ahead and picked her first book, Charisma, up from the library.
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