A review by amyb24
The Blue Nowhere by Jeffery Deaver
2.0
It's not The Blue Nowhere's fault.
If I'd read this in 2001, around when it was published, I would have given it a higher rating. The plot is the type of action-packed mental popcorn you expect from Jeffrey Deaver (although I did notice his character development is better in his more recent work). It's also got some interesting ideas about privacy and data that are incredibly relevant today.
However, the book aged very badly with respect to the technology it describes. Very, very badly. Almost everything described in the book as cutting edge is either low level today, or obsolete (hello, floppy disks--and even the hacker's "state of the art" Zip disk). The technology is such a part of the plot that having it be this out of date is distracting.
I wish I'd read this book 15 years ago.
If I'd read this in 2001, around when it was published, I would have given it a higher rating. The plot is the type of action-packed mental popcorn you expect from Jeffrey Deaver (although I did notice his character development is better in his more recent work). It's also got some interesting ideas about privacy and data that are incredibly relevant today.
However, the book aged very badly with respect to the technology it describes. Very, very badly. Almost everything described in the book as cutting edge is either low level today, or obsolete (hello, floppy disks--and even the hacker's "state of the art" Zip disk). The technology is such a part of the plot that having it be this out of date is distracting.
I wish I'd read this book 15 years ago.