ReWired
S.R.
Johannes
Publication date: August 27th 2017
Genres: Thriller, Young Adult
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 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.
EXCERPT:
Simone never did anything without a reason.
There’s only way to find out what that was. I need to
get on a computer. And I know just where to find one. In Ms. Matthews
office.
When Ms. Matthews pops in for room check, I pretend to
be deathly ill. Getting this lady to believe me isn’t as hard. My fake gagging
sounds cleared the room really fast.
After everyone heads to their first activity, I sneak
down to the lunchroom and snag the lunch lady’s security card from her
register. After some time observing, I know the center uses a standard swipe
system, so hopefully this card will gain me access.
Currently, she lives in Atlanta, GA with hEnglish-accented husband and the huge imaginations of their prince and princess, which she hopes- someday- will change the world.
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BIO:
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 hEnglish-accented husband and the huge imaginations of their prince and princess, which she hopes- someday- will change the world.
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