ReWired by S. R. Johannes
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Author: S. R. Johannes
Title: ReWired
Published: August 27th
Genre: thriller, ya
Amazon link: ReWired
Goodreads link: ReWired
Recieved from Xpresso Book Tours in exchange for honest review
Synopsys:
YA cyber thriller, ReWIRED, by Shelli Johannes-Wells (writing as S.R. Johannes), which offers a fresh and exciting new take on the genre, and could be described as Ally Carter’s HEIST SOCIETY meets THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO for teens.
Sixteen-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 Online 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 who gets under her skin, and most of all–the version of herself Ada likes best–the Dark Angel.
With a deliciously twisty plot, the topical bite of Cory Doctorow’s LITTLE BROTHER, ReWIRED delves into technology addiction, internet privacy, and corporate/government collection of data, as it vividly illuminates the universally human questions about ethics, privacy, and self-definition that both underpin these socio-political issues and dovetail with classic coming-of-age themes. Ultimately, ReWIRED is about the daily choices we all make about who we want to be, how much of ourselves we choose to share with others, and the terrifying risks and exhilarating rewards of being ourselves, online and off.
Review:
Recently (well, since reading Ready Player One) I've been really into any kind of techy/hacking/thriller-ish book, and this is reall good one.
We follow Ada, senetors daughter by day and hacker Dark Angel by night. She was hacking with her best friend, until she died. She is still greatly affected by her death and is kind of anti social.
One day, after White House hack, she gets picked up by FBI and taken to rehab. There is where thing really get complicated.
It really gripping and interesting book, that you cann't put down. I really enjoed reading it. I usually cheak few review, before reading a book and I'm very happy I didn't do that with this one, it really good to be suprised by amazing plot twist.
Highly recommend it!
Happy reading,
Anie
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