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ReWired by S.R. Johannes

Let me just say that because this is a personal blog, I took the opportunity to go fucking ham on this book and rip it to fucking sherds. If you’d like to read a nicer review with no swearing, check out my review on Goodreads. I actually sound like a decent and professional person over there. If you’d like to see what I really thought about the book in its unabridged version, please continue here. But thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for providing me with a copy of the book in exchange for and HONEST review.

Genre: is flop a genre? No? Well it’s listed as a Thriller, but let me tell you, I was NOT thrilled

Okay first of all, Ada Lovelace? That’s the name you’re going to go with? Seriously that’s like a hooker name or something (if you’re name is Ada Lovelace, I’m sorry and I’m sure you’re a lovely person, but you got stuck with a shit name).

I wish I could just show you the notes I took right on my Kindle (most of which were a single word: idiot), but alas I had a PDF document and the comments don’t get posted to Goodreads soooooo I’ll just have to tell you the gist of it.

So here is the tl;dr review: I’m Ada Lovelace! I’m a really good hacker and always cover my steps! Oh, shit the FBI found me out! Instead of prison I have to go to technology addiction rehab. I love being cruel to the other teens stuck in the same place as me, saying totally asshole-y insensitive shit. I think I’m really smart, but I’m actually a fucking dolt. I couldn’t see the plot-twist of my own story coming even if it punched me in the fucking brain.

Yeah. If I ever become as stupid as Ada, just fucking put me out of my misery.

We’re stuck in her head for the ENTIRE BOOK.

The underlying plot is pretty much social media bad, old world good. Yeah. Thrilling. Ada and her group of hacktivists (I hate that word) “The Orwellians” uncover that the foremost social media platform, SocialNet (I think that’s what it’s called I don’t care enough to go back and check) is doing some sketchy shit. So, Ada tries to hack into their main servers (because she’s the best!) and gets caught by the FBI (okay… maybe she’s not the best).

To avoid humiliating her senator father, who also happens to be trying to pass a cyber-security bill, she opts to head to rehab for kids addicted to technology (oh for fuck sakes).

In rehab, dubbed Reboot, she meets the flattest cast of characters to ever exist:

- There’s the grumpy goth hacker-girl Raven. She’s unique because she has pink hair.

- Becca, the bubbly, chocolate-loving cheerleader who wears velour track suits with words printed across her ass. She’s at Reboot for cyberbullying.

- Andrew, shit, no, Varian, who is also goth-y and who takes WoW waaaay too seriously. He actually turned out to be my favourite though…

- There’s mute Crash who is at Reboot because he hasn’t talked in a year and only writes notes in email format. He’s mute because he thinks he killed his sister. He didn’t. That’s not a spoiler.

And finally,

-   Fisher, the mandatory love interest. He’s cute and nerdy with washboard abs. But he has glasses so that makes him unique.

After that, we spend over half the book hearing (reading) Ada complain about being in “hell”.

She almost dies EVERY. DAY. She almost gets shot with a fucking marble by Varian (see why I like him?), nearly falls to her death on a ropes course, and nearly gets burnt to a crisp when someone burns down a computer lab on the strictly “computer-free” Reboot campus. Oh yeah then she nearly gets straight-up murdered like ten times by the CEO of SocialNet. Oops… I guess that’s a spoiler? No just kidding, it’s not, they tell you the CEO is a shady motherfucker from the very beginning (but Ada doesn’t know that until he basically tells her right before he attempts to murder her). Yeah, I was cheering the bad guy on by this point.

Johannes doesn’t really seem to understand what mental illness entails, and it would have taken five seconds of research to figure it out. If you didn’t know, I am a huge advocated for destigmatizing mental health and hate when people (whoever they may be) perpetrate the stigma to fit their own agenda, storyline, or whatever the fuck it may be.

So yeah, pretty much that’s it. It seems that there is a sequel being set up by the last chapter, but I hope to fuck it doesn’t happen.

Oh yeah, it also took Johannes FOUR YEARS to write this. Four years wasted unfortunately. Of course, this is my opinion, and you are entitled to your own. I left out like fifty of the other “plot twists” so if you want to read and discover them yourself, be my guest. It’s just that you’ll see them coming and you’ll get frustrated when Ada can’t figure it the fuck out and dumbly walks straight into danger (you’ll want her to though).

So yeah, that’s it. I have to admit, I did actually enjoy raging about this book. I’d be sitting outside my exam room waiting to go in and everyone around me would be studying and stressing out, but I’d be decompressing from said study-stress by realizing that if Ada is still alive at the end of this book (although I do know this is just a book), I can pass my exam.

So yeah, that’s it. Bye book!

Oh and final verdict, 1/5.

[womanoncesaid]

Weird, how the small, dumb things never change. Yet the big, important things you want to stay the same never do.

S.R. Johannes, Untraceable

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the sparrow [ the score ] 

The Jesuit scientists went to learn, not to proselytize. They went so that they might come to know and love God’s other children. They went for the reason Jesuits have always gone to the farthest frontiers of human exploration. They went ad majorem Dei gloriam; for the greater glory of God.

They meant no harm. 

❥ listen.

they meant no harm [the bridge - arcane]

rome, december 2059 [endless falls - loscil]

sofia and emilio [any other name - thomas newman]

not magdalene, lazarus [video tape - ólafur arnalds]

they sing. we have to know them [laura lee - craig wedren, anna waronker, theodore shapiro]

turtles on fenceposts [leaving caladan - hans zimmer]

stella maris [launch - hans zimmer]

landfall, rakhat [the mustard seed - johann johannsson]

the passing of alan pace [sunshine adagio - john murphy]

hasta’akala: to be made like sta’aka [ballade in c# minor: coronation - nicholas britell]

as you can see: the whore sleeps badly [juan and sanchia have sex - trevor morris]

god! god i was born for this! [leaving home - johann johannsson]

the village of kashan [light of life (ibelin reprise) - harry gregson-williams]

supaari vagayjur profitted from the presence of the jesuit party on rakhat before he knew of its existence [the one - hans zimmer]

the vakashani [joie de vivre - ramin djawadi]

by e.j. sandoz and s.r. mendes [ibelin - harry gregson-williams]

hlavin kitheri was a poet [visions of chani - hans zimmer]

have you ever wondered about the story of cain, ed? [blake & schofield - thomas newman]

lord this is as fine bunch of tailless primates as your universe has to offer [the city surf - jamin winans]

this was, he thought, the first time celibacy would truly rob him of something [stay with me - clint mansell]

sipaj supaari [letha dreams - nathan barr]

the jana’ata breed them as we breed dogs [holy war - hans zimmer]

and he devised for her a calculus of love [dreamcatcher - alexandre desplat]

the city of gayjur [nassau shores - bear mccreary]

the vahaptaa [deal’s changed - arcane]

i am your sister and we are orphaned [across the oceans of time - ramin djawadi]

the raid on kashan [revenge - arcane]

ils sont les innocents/the culls [two hundred thousand books - dario marianelli]

we shall sing of this for generations [dark matter - twelve titans music]

i was naked before god and i was raped [core chant - meredith monk, allison smith, theo bleckman]

you see meelo? your family came for you! i found you for them! [on the nature of daylight - max richter]

but it was my body. it was my blood. and it was my love. [come back to us - thomas newman]

but the sparrow still falls [elysium - ryan amon]

[ the sparrow (general) playlist | emilio sandoz playlist | sofia mendes playlist |  gina and emilio playlist | anne and george playlist | sofia and emilio playlist ]

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ReWired by S.R. Johannes

ReWired by S.R. Johannes

ReWired S.R. Johannes Publication date: August 27th 2017 Genres: Thriller, Young Adult 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…

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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.

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ReWired by S.R. Johannes

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ReWired - Review

ReWired – Review

By S.R Johannes Goodreads | Amazon Ada Lovelace is the 16 year old daughter of a high profile senator. She is also a master hacker and member of the notorious hacking group, the Orwellians. After the death of her fellow hacker friend, Simone, Ada dares to find out just what happened, but finds herself in too deep when the FBI discovers Ada hacking into the popular teen site, SocialNet. To appease…

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Weird, how the small, dumb things never change. Yet the big, important things you want to stay the same never do.

S.R. Johannes, Untraceable

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#InkRipples: World Building

#InkRipples is a themed meme hosted by Mary Waibel, Katie L. Carroll, and Kai Strand. We post on the first Monday of every month. If you would like to participate compose your own post regarding the theme of the month, include any of the images displayed on this page, and link back to their three blogs. Feel free to post whenever you want during the month, but be sure to include #inkripples when you promote so readers can find you. The idea is that we toss a word or idea into the inkwell and each post is a new ripple. There is no wrong interpretation. Woah. Look, I'm actually managing to get this post out on the first Monday of the month :) And, ahh, this is a topic that I absolutely love: building new worlds. Because while we live in a pretty interesting one, there's something to be said for creating a place where the fantastical, the magical, or sometimes just the very different (think, alt-history) happen. While I'm focusing more on the sci-fi/fantasy trajectory here, because that's what I write, really all novels have another world in them, even if it's entirely built upon the one we live in; different things happen, and no matter how close to 'reality' something may be, it doesn't mean that it's entirely fact. So, what I love most about world building is thinking about all the little details that might be different. While creating the world of the time-travelers in Travelers, I loved thinking about how their lives would be different. What would it mean to be able to always have a do-over if you wanted it? But what if that do-over had to happen much later in your life? And what would you do if you could travel and live in any era that you wanted? How would that change you? I imagine in all sorts of interesting ways--and also alter the relationships with all those around you. I ended up trying to create a situation where most of the young travelers didn't have much experience changing things, as I quickly realized that was an out of control situation if I let them just do what they wanted whenever :) In the current book I'm working on, people have Talents--almost all are little things (their toast always falls butter side up), but sometimes talents can be much, much bigger (like, a person is always charismatic...to the point of being able to talk anyone into anything). What does this mean about their society? How would their jails work if they arrested someone with the talent to melt metal? How might their schools be different to accommodate students who were just plain good at memorizing? And what about romantic relationships? Would there be ways to test and tell what a good match would be, based on your talents? All sorts of fun little details come from this kind of study. Maybe it's because my day job is as an anthropologist--those who study humans--that I find all the little components come together to make a richer, fuller whole. One that I enjoy working with when writing, and especially love while reading. I think this is one of the reasons Harry Potter will remain such a popular tale: the world itself is superb, with all kinds of details and fun little nuggets that allow a reader to see it as a real place, with real occupants, where, someday, if you're very lucky, you might be able to visit. Because, that's what we're doing while reading, right? Visiting the worlds we've built, and hoping to take our readers there, too :) What are some of the worlds you most like visiting? A quick shout-out to S.R. Johannes and her recent release: ReWired!! 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. (Goodreads) http://dlvr.it/Pkh0by

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Book Blitz: ReWired by S.R. Johannes

How do you feel about cyberpunk? Me, I love it. Technology, hackers, large scale conspiracies — be they government or corporate (is there really any difference these days?) — I am here for all of that. I don't know how many times I've watched Hackers (cheesy though it seems now), and Mr. Robot is pretty much the best damn thing on TV today. Combined with my love of YA lit, a YA cyber-thriller like ReWired is right up my alley.

All the winking little nods in the synopsis, from the main character's alias being "Dark Angel" (shades of the early aughties Jessica Alba show?) to the hacker group being called the Orwellians, only makes me want to read it more. If you're a YA fan and have similar feels about cyberpunk themes, you might want to check this one out too. It's available now, and there's a giveaway obviously. Take a look:

ReWired

S.R. Johannes | YA ● Cyberpunk ● Thriller

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.

READ AN EXCERPT FROM REWIRED

The Dark Angel

Some say technology kills. But these days, a computer is my only lifeline. I move through the warehouse and flip on the space heater before checking the outside security cameras, but the streets are deserted as usual. This is my safe space. A place to hide. Here, there’s no IP address to track. No connection to trace. Here, I can sneak on and off the grid without anyone knowing.

Undetected and untraceable.

Hacker Commandment #1: One can never be too paranoid.

I turn on the desk lamp and sweep my hand across the ugly DIY desk made of a few cracked two-by-fours and a slab of plywood. Yesterday’s pizza box and empty Dr Pepper cans jump off the edge, clanging to the floor.

I unzip my messenger bag. A tattered copy of George Orwell’s 1984 snuggles up to my cell phone, and my laptop peeks through the opposite mesh sleeve. Its permanent resting place. In case I need to bolt unexpectedly.

Punching the ON button, I boot up my computer. “Rise and shine, Zed. It’s show time.”

I sit back as the laptop runs through its morning routine without any complaint. The perfect companion. Someone who never talks back. Follows my every command.

Once Zed is up and running, I blaze through my ritual. Perform a few carpal tunnel stretches. Secure both wrist braces. And crack all ten knuckles... twice. Then I slip in my earbuds and jack up some Daft Punk. The louder, the better. My legs bounce to the beat, and adrenaline buzzes through my veins like data on a live wire. My nerves hum with anticipation.

As soon as the desktop pops up, I sign on to the satellite network with an encrypted password and return to my latest target: SocialNet. My fingers skip across my keyboard, adding a clicking beat to the music drumming in my ears. After editing my script for the umpteenth time, I hit and watch my creation. The program floats up my screen, disappearing into the cybersphere. Hopefully this will open the back door I need.

I started the SocialNet hack with another hacker a few months ago after suspecting the company was lying about their privacy terms. Rumor has it the company stores teen data and makes a ton of money selling it. This means a teen’s personal pictures, posts, and confidential profile information is up for grabs. Without teens knowing. All for a buck.

I would die if my information got it, so I wanna see if it’s true. And if it is, I need to shut it down. But after months of coding, I still can’t crack the stupid system. SocialNet is well protected, guarded by steel firewalls and an army of Geeks-on-Call.

Busting into the largest teen networking site in the world with a little laptop is like busting into Fort Knox with a wet firecracker. Nearly impossible.

Waiting, I tap my fingers on the table, hoping this program can find something interesting to make my day exciting.

Zed beeps two dirty words every hacker hates to see:

“Hmmm.” I bite my lip. “We’ll see about that.”

An alarm sounds off in the warehouse.

I race over to check the cameras.

A security guard strolls by camera three and stops in front of my door.

I freeze and hold my breath, waiting for his next move. Last thing I need is to get busted hacking.

About the Author

S.R. Johannes is the award-winning author of the Amazon bestselling Nature of Grace thriller series (Untraceable, Uncontrollable, and Unstoppable). She is a winner of the IndieReader Discovery Award in YA, an IPPY a Silver Medalist for YA Fiction, a Finalist in The Kindle Book Review’s Best Young Adult Fiction, and a Finalist in US Book News Best YA Book.

Since leaving Corporate America, she has followed her passion for writing and conservation by working with The Dolphin Project, the Atlanta Zoo, other animal rescue organizations, and by weaving conservation themes into her books.

Currently, she lives in Atlanta, GA with her English-accented husband and the huge imaginations of their prince and princess, which she hopes- someday- will change the world.

Find S.R. Johannes Online: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads

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Review: ReWired by S.R. Johannes

Review: ReWired by S.R. Johannes

Title: ReWired  Author: S.R. Johannes Publication Date: August 27th 2017 Genres: Thriller, Young Adult 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…