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JL Lycette is a novelist, award-winning essayist, rural physician, wife, and mom. She has a degree in biochemistry from the University of San Francisco and attained her medical degree at the University of Washington.
Mid-career, she discovered narrative medicine in her path back from physician burnout and has been writing ever since.
She is an alumna of the 2019 Pitch Wars Mentoring program. Her published short speculative fiction can be found in the anthology And If That Mockingbird Don't Sing: Parenting Stories Gone Speculative (Alternating Current Press).
The Algorithm Will See You Now is her first novel. Her second novel, the prequel, The Committee Will Kill You Now, will release on 11/09/23.
Reviewed by Vincent Dublado for Readers' Favorite
The Algorithm Will See You Now by JL Lycette is a prophetic medical thriller set in the year 2035, where artificial intelligence serves as a medical diagnostician. One doctor questions its efficacy and ramifications, and it doesn’t stand well with her superiors. Doctor Hope Kestrel is a High Resident at Prognostic Intelligent Medical Algorithms, a Seattle-based hospital taking a quantum leap in diagnostic services, and which is about to merge with Seattle Healthcare Associates. PRIMA is everything that Hope has ever wanted in a healthcare system, the one she wished had existed for her ailing mother. But despite PRIMA’S optimization to help patients flourish, it still makes an error. One patron or patient that is admitted into the service triggers Hope and her intern, Jacie Stone, to scrutinize and investigate. Hope begins to doubt the infallibility of the algorithm. She will come face to face with Marah Maddox, an imposing figure in the business, where Hope will discover a dark secret in the creation of the algorithm.
The Algorithm Will See You Now brings you a theme that is sublime and alternately shocking. The story touches on a subject that we have all experienced. If you have ever gone to the hospital for treatment, this tale is enough to reverberate in your heart and soul. JL Lycette takes inspiration from the medical field and with visionary panache gives you a jaw-dropping what-if scenario in the future of medical diagnostics. The pace has the right balance between building up the tension and giving revelations. Details are evocative and the medical jargon is easy to understand. The fascinating subject matter and the bravura of its protagonist make the medical innovations mesmerizing to read about. This story has an intense emotional structure that will appeal to fans of medical thrillers.
