Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Rewired by S. R. Johannes

🌟🌟out of 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Synopsis:
16-year-old Ada Lovelace is never more alive and sure of herself than when she’s hacking into a “secure” network as her alter ego, the Dark Angel. In the real world, Ada is broken, reeling from her best friend Simone’s recent suicide. But online, the reclusive daughter of Senator Lovelace (champion of the new Technology Privacy Bill) is a daring white hat hacker and the only female member of the Orwellians, an elite group responsible for a string of high-profile hacks against major corporations, with a mission to protect the little guy.

Ada is swiftly proving she’s a force to be reckoned with, when a fellow Orwellian betrays her to the FBI. To protect her father’s career, Ada is sent to ReBoot, a technology rehab facility for teens…the same rehab Simone attended right before killing herself.

It’s bad enough that the ReBoot facility is creepy in an Overlook-Hotel-meets-Winchester-Mansion way, but when Ada realizes Simone’s suicide is just one in an increasingly suspicious string of “accidental” deaths and “suicides” occurring just after kids leave ReBoot, Ada knows she can’t leave without figuring out what really happened to her best friend. The massive cyber conspiracy she uncovers will threaten everything she cares about–her dad’s career, her new relationship with a wry, handsome, reformed hacker, Fisher, who gets under her skin, and most of all–the Dark Angel.

***ARC provided by publishers via netgalley in exchange of honest review***

I thought that the book started off well with an intriguing beginning. I wanted to know more about Ava very quickly and what made her begin hacking.I wish that the author would have explained more about her background as well as the other characters that we meet when Ava is sent to Reboot.I felt like I only got basic information about each character so I was unable to connect with the characters as much as I would have liked to.
The book picked up very quickly after the first few pages which made me feel like I didn't get a very good sense of the plot or Ava before she is sent to Reboot. This also made the book seem less realistic because things moved so quickly that it was hard to grasp any concepts before the book dives into the conspiracy surrounding Reboot.If Ava is as good of a hacker as we are lead to believe then how was she caught so quickly. It seemed like she knew how to cover her tracks in order to not be discovered.I know that she was betrayed but she was careful with the members in her group as well so that didn't even make sense to me. 
I thought the book was okay. I wanted more tense, edgy scenes where it was a race against the clock. I think that it would have been interesting to have more focus on the Orwellians as well. 

1 comment:

  1. This one sounds a bit too convenient. Cool cover though.

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