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    Bluescreen
    Bluescreen
    Bluescreen
    Audiobook11 hours

    Bluescreen

    Written by Dan Wells

    Narrated by Roxanne Hernandez

    3.5/5

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    “Bluescreen is a stunning deluge of imagination, filled with suspense and twists and unforgettable characters. This book is just plain awesome.”—James Dashner, bestselling author of The Maze Runner

    From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence, comes the first book in a new sci-fi-noir series. Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. That connection is a djinni—a smart device implanted right in a person’s head. In a world where virtually everyone is online twenty-four hours a day, this connection is like oxygen—and a world like that presents plenty of opportunities for someone who knows how to manipulate it.

    Marisa Carneseca is one of those people. She might spend her days in Mirador, but she lives on the net—going to school, playing games, hanging out, or doing things of more questionable legality with her friends Sahara and Anja. And it’s Anja who first gets her hands on Bluescreen—a virtual drug that plugs right into a person’s djinni and delivers a massive, nonchemical, completely safe high. But in this city, when something sounds too good to be true, it usually is, and Mari and her friends soon find themselves in the middle of a conspiracy that is much bigger than they ever suspected.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateFeb 16, 2016
    ISBN9780062447333
    Author

    Dan Wells

    Dan Wells is the author of the john Cleaver series: I Am Not a Serial Killer, Mr Monster, and I Don’t Want to Kill You. He has been nominated for both the Hugo and Campbell award and has won two Parsec Awards for his podcast, Writing Excuses. He plays a lot of games, reads a lot of books and eats a lot of food, which is pretty much the ideal life he imagined for himself as a child. You can find out more online at www.fearfulsymmetry.net.

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    • 3/5
      I was thoroughly confused for a few chapters and then the book started growing on me and I did end up enjoying it. I thought there were way too many supporting characters, but I didn't get them mixed up which is good. The future technology was super neat to read about. I do however hope that the world never turns up like it does in BLUESCREEN. I thought BLUESCREEN was a good start to Dan Well's new series. If readers can get past the confusion in the beginning I think they will have no problem wanting to read book two.* This book was provided free of charge from Publisher in exchange for an honest review.
    • 2/5
      There are details and then filler. This book is overloaded with fillers. The first six chapters could be reduced to two if the fillers were removed. It causes the book to be a slow read and often uninteresting.
    • 4/5
      "Cherry Dogs Forever!"Book Title: BluescreenAuthor: Dan WellsNarration: Roxanne HernandezSource: Audiobook (Library)WHY I PICKED THAT QUOTE:Uhmmm…I don't really know, it's the battle cry of Marissa's online gaming team. Sadly, this book didn't inspire me to look further than that. Actually the gaming aspect of this really bored me.OVERALL RATING: 3.3/5 STARS BREAKDOWN OF RATING:Plot: 3.5/5 --It was good concept, so-so execution. This book moved at a breakneck speed, with a lot of techy talk, but left me feeling meh.Characters: 3/5 –While they were a very diverse cast of characters, I don’t feel like I know them. Just within Marissa's family alone, there were several differet names for each one of her siblings, of which I'm not sure how many siblings she even has. Basically, there is a lot of names to keep track of, and it made it difficult to actually know anyone and difficult to follow the story.The Feels: 2.5/5Theme: 4/5Flow: 3/5 --Too much techno babble, it made it hard for me to enjoy it. Backdrop (World Bu/ilding): 4/5 --The most noteworthy component to this story.Originality: 4/5Book Cover: 4/5Sex Factor: NoneNarration: 3/5 --This is one of those books, that would have been better for me to read rather than listen, but then the length of it would have done me in. A lot of Spanish terms flying around, that I couldn't follow that quickly. Sometimes I zoned out while listening, and didn't really care.Ending: 4/5 Cliffhanger: No, but apparently this is a series…Will I continue the series? Probably notMY ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS:I'm not computer illiterate but this book made me feel as if I am, at least sort of. This futuristic world that Dan Wells painted is one that seems totally plausible in the coming years. There are some interesting aspects to it. To the djinni, the cars that drive themselves, and the laundry bot. I really wanted to like this a lot more than I did, because I loved the Partials Sequence, but it just wasn't happening. Marissa is no Kira…
    • 4/5
      Bluescreen is a science fiction thriller.Marisa is a great coder--one of the best and plays online games in hopes of competing professionally with her team. This is the future where computers are embedded in your brain and you blink to select what you want. People are quite poor because machines do everything, from cleaning to delivering pizza. There’s nothing left. If you want a job, you need to move to Mexico. When one of Marisa’s teammates buys Bluescreen, a drug, Marisa realizes that the drug dealers are worth fighting because this drug is dangerous.As they begin investigating, Marisa and her team learn that gangs are involved as well. Bluescreen takes over your mind and someone else can control your body. As this virus is being sold mainly to the rich, Marisa believes they are trying to control people who have power. Economically, this could cripple the world. With people willing to go to these lengths, Marisa and her friends are in a very perilous situation. Overall, I liked the novel. It’s different. I thought it was odd that adults talked about Marisa as a bad influence; she’s not. She’s very talented in fact and has a moral and ethical conscience. The world is a scary world where humans are really not necessary except the rich. The poor struggle and have to resort to questionable activities to make money. Marisa’s brother is one of these people who belongs to a local gang, so the connection between the poor and rich is made to allow Marisa access to people who can help her. I think those of you who really like computers will particularly enjoy the novel, but anyone who likes futuristic thrillers, will enjoy it as well!