My wife randomly picked up 3 YA sci-fi-looking books at the library for me to read. Actually, I think this one was something my daughter's friend wanted her to read, and I got to it first. Interesting story, and a quick read. Unfortunately I wasn't told it was the first of 3 books; the main story really didn't conclude anything; it just set up the sequels, and I'm not sure I'm going to read them.
Kind of a fun premise, though a little too unrealistic...super-genius teenagers trying to win a hacking puzzle game at a high-tech college. Including a kid from Nigeria who barely has internet a few hours a day but apparently is a super-engineer and a super-coder who just gets in the groove...like all sci-fi "hackers". I think the worst was when 3 teams were all "hacking" a laptop and they were all comparing their progress...who was ahead of others, like there was some massive progress bar everyone could see. Yeeeaaah, it doesn't really work like that. Nor do I believe a bunch of teenagers, no matter how smart, can build a super-hacking battle-bot or a cybernetic attachment to a small bug...not once but twice in a matter of a day.
But for young adults who want to have a fun story about kids like them (uh, well, at least in their age range) doing movie-esque secret agent spy work and hacking, I guess this fits the bill.
02/05/2022 // F // Paper