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Moderation

By: Elaine Castillo
Narrated by: Elaine Castillo
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Summary

 Girlie, a thirty-something Filipinx-American, works a day job at a social-media moderation centre, flagging and removing the very worst that makes it on to the internet. She's good at it, too - dispassionate, unflinching, maybe because she learned by necessity to cauterise all her emotions when she was still a kid - so it's no surprise to anyone when the social-media company for which she works offers her a big pay rise and an office to start moderating its new venture: virtual-reality theme parks, stunning simulations of civilizations long-since dead.


Girlie takes the job, and it almost seems too good to be true. Almost. Sure, she signed up for having to deal with the ambient racism and misogyny of pretty much any virtual space, but as she begins to explore the intricate worlds that she moderates, she notices two deeply troubling things: that there might be something much darker built into the very code of the company, and that William, technically her new boss, a man whose barriers are as mighty as her own, might just be that long-forgotten thing... Girlie's type.©2025 Elaine Castillo (P)2025 Penguin Audio and Atlantic Books Ltd Family Life Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction United States Women's Fiction World Literature
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There was a great futuristic element to this romance. There was a stereotype to the English characters but the author seemed to know England well.

Romantic sci-fi

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Enjoyed the narration, loved the story, held captive by the lyrical writing. Wanted to listen on for ages more

Beautiful, special, awesome

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Fabulous characters and deeply interesting story of loss, pain, hope and love wrapped in a real and virtual world

Beautifully written and read wonderful story

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Interesting to learn about very different lives. Well written, but I felt there was a bit too much in this. A strong contender for the women’s prize shortlist.

Narrator is brilliant

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