A review by wildflowerz76
Girl Gone Viral by Arvin Ahmadi
3.0
When Opal was only 10 years old, her dad disappeared, leaving behind a note that brings up more questions than it answers. She's been looking for him for years. Now she's in school at a tech-heavy high school in Palo Alto. She and some friends enter a tech contest where one of the prizes is a meeting with the powerful owner of WAVE, a huge VR platform. Opal wants to win more than anything so she can finally speak to that man. He was her father's partner and he may have answers.
I forget where I got the rec for this, but it's been on my list a while. I never quite fell into this one and I'm not sure why. The story is interesting, though while it did reveal the big question in the end, it felt like a sudden ending with not a lot of closure. But Opal never felt fully fleshed out to me. Or her friends, for that matter. I didn't really feel like I knew them. In the end, this was fine, but not spectacular.
I forget where I got the rec for this, but it's been on my list a while. I never quite fell into this one and I'm not sure why. The story is interesting, though while it did reveal the big question in the end, it felt like a sudden ending with not a lot of closure. But Opal never felt fully fleshed out to me. Or her friends, for that matter. I didn't really feel like I knew them. In the end, this was fine, but not spectacular.