Bluescreen

A Mirador Novel

By: Dan Wells

Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez

Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's summary

From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times best-selling 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 24 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.

©2016 Dan Wells (P)2016 HarperCollins Publishers

Great book!!

The story reminds me a little bit of ghost in the shell. The narrator is really good and made me feel I was there at times. This is also my first audio book and I will be listening to another book shortly. :)

Don't miss this one!

When your 'to read' pile of books has to be ignored so you can re-read Bluescreen, you know you've found a good one! This boo breaks down racial and continental barriers and shows friendship in ask is wonder. The pre-apocaliptic world created here is amazing and terrifying as personal computers become more 'personal' than most people could ever imagine, especially as our own world becomes more and more reliant on technology with every passing day. Don't miss this book. It's awesome!

YOUTH fiction here, but also a warning

This is certainly a YA novel, not heavier, probing adult literature. But the topic is timely and cautionary. It's pretty good, but not awesome. It did not make me like the characters. The narration is also okay.

Satisfying YA CYberpunk with surprising hard sci-f

You need to accept a few things going into this book. First it's a YA book about teenagers, so you're going to have boy-crazy girls, you're going to have tingly romantic feelings, and you're going to have family drama. Also you will have to accept that a couple of teenagers can take on an organization.

If those things don't stop you in your tracks, then you're gold. Because beneath the above, Bluescreen is good cyberpunk. It's also hard sci-fi, because so much of it hinges on software, programming, hacking, and how all that plays with cybernetic implants.

This looks to be the first book in a new series by Wells, and I look forward to the next one. A shame the third never made it to audio.

Great plot that made me think I had it figured out

I really enjoyed this book, The diversity of the characters, and the plotting. I recommend it to anyone who likes cyberpunk and sci-fi.

I never thought YA and Cyberpunk work together

And I was right.
The first half of this book feels like a mess.
I didn't buy the teenager poor girl that goes to glamorous clubs every night. The super diverse cast and the billionaire with dreamy eyes.
If it wasn't for my new year resolution to finish the books I bought on audible, doubtful I would get past the mid point.

BUT
The last part is actually quite solid, all the building blocks are established ahead of time. I was not a big fan of a big action at the end, but all in all, the second part of the book is fun enough to merit 3.5-4 stars (so I rounded up to 4)

An interesting read for aspiring authors who want to see how a plot is built correctly, in that Wells is a master.

All in all, worth the read, but starts quite badly in my opinion.

I love everything by Dan Wells!

I seriously hope his books are turned in to film adaptions. Very captivating stories. Also, I love the female lead aspect. I’ve been searching for books that make me as the reader feel recognized and his stories do it for me. Also, the reading performer for this series so far, has been excellent. Love her voice abilities.

Excellent book!

Twists and turns and action and disaster l. Great story with great characters and it's a fun read. Errr, listen. Whatever.

I really enjoyed this

it's been a long time since I've read a cyberpunk story and this delivered. I found it an interesting blend of Hackers and Ghost in the Shell. I liked the implications of the rising computerization of society and am glad that this is geared towards teens because they should really think about whether or not they want a world like this. I found the story plausible and look forward to knowing where the story will end up.

not bad, but difficult narrator

I have enjoyed Dan Wells before, but he never hooked me really deeply, it felt the same here. the book had a decent premise and a fine plot, but it never really launched in my mind. this might still have been a great listen if the narrator had been good, but her depiction and voice really turned into a barrier. Roxanne Hernandez voiced several characters in a patronizing, falsely jovial tone. I thought it might be situational at first, but she carried that tone through every peril and victory. it probably wouldn't have kicked me out of the experience if the story had grabbed me, but with both feeling mediocre, I had to force myself to finish the book.