I enjoyed Zero Day – I think it was definitely a good thing that the politics were so minor, since I’m feeling very political these days!
What Worked:
- characters – loved Adie and felt like the portrayal of her brainwashing was fairly well done. I liked the difficulty she had trusting her parents or believing in them.
- I like the narration a lot
What could have worked better:
- I think it required a lot of belief in situations I just can’t see going through. President’s daughter returned mysteriously and without any harm and there’s only one person who doesn’t trust that?
- The school situation was weird. Quaker school? For political kids? Really? (maybe that’s been real in the past, but wow it felt weird!)
- Her mom spent years creating this program and Adie can change it in one night? If she’s so good – why do they need her to steal it? Why can’t she just write it too? And since when are so many people skilled hackers? Geez!
- It’s left open for a book 2 but for me this should have been a stand alone… I don’t see wanting to keep going, even if I did enjoy it.
I thought there was some suspicion of disbelief in the Jasper Dent series. I loved it, but cops just aren’t going to share that much with children. This does sound interesting. That’s a narrator I’ve been wanting to try too.
I wanted to read this book so bad! I probably still will, hopefully I like it better than Just okay. 🙂
Looks like you needed to swallow a little blue pill for to believe a lot of the plot. Not sure I buy the Quaker school. Sorry, this wasn’t stronger for you. I thought you’d read Zero Day part of the Hatchling Horror trilogy at first.
Hmm…I got this book in a bookbox gift. I haven’t read it yet obviously and I’m thinking I’m okay with having put it off. Maybe I’ll get around to it eventually. I’m glad you were able to enjoy it overall even if there were things that could have worked better. 😉 A Quaker school? Hmm…
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