A review by lisaluvsliterature
The Hive by Barry Lyga, Morgan Baden
5.0
This book was so good. So much of it relates to what is going on today, our President, our social media issues, society, mob mentality, all of it. It was really scary and had me gasping even at certain parts. It definitely reminded me of one episode of the show Black Mirror that starred Bryce Dallas Howard, where everyone rated everyone else when they saw them, and how you could take away the little perks and even just ease of every day life by down-voting people. I've also been told there is another episode of the same show where someone is able to control mechanical bees to kill people that have done something on social media. I will have to watch that one. But anyway, the main character Cassie lost her father and had to move to a new school where she doesn't really want to fit in. Her father was a well-known/infamous hacker and her mother is a professor of classics. She doesn't get along with her mother, but misses her father a lot. She finally tries to fit in with a group of girls who are kind of the top of the popular kids. The girls goad her into posting something about the President's grandchild and her tasteless joke backfires in that everyone gets up in arms and all of a sudden she is the one the Hive is after and she runs. We get a lot of the hacker group story in this, which is very interesting, although maybe a little high-techy at times. There's definitely a lot of adventure and suspense and back doors and twists and turns. There are things that the President in the book does or says that totally are like you'd think our actual current President in real life would do.
My only complaint was with the third person type of narration, it was somewhat omniscient in that we got both Cassie and her mother Rachel's thoughts and actions, and sometimes it was confusing because it was within the same page without any separation to tell us we'd changed points of view. Other than that this was such a real book to how things are and how easy it is for people to go so intense over the smallest thing, such as what a person has said.
Review first appeared on Lisa Loves Literature.
My only complaint was with the third person type of narration, it was somewhat omniscient in that we got both Cassie and her mother Rachel's thoughts and actions, and sometimes it was confusing because it was within the same page without any separation to tell us we'd changed points of view. Other than that this was such a real book to how things are and how easy it is for people to go so intense over the smallest thing, such as what a person has said.
Review first appeared on Lisa Loves Literature.