Zero Day

by Jan Gangsei

• ISBN10: 1484722264
• ISBN13: 9781484722268
• Publish Date: 4 February 2016 (first published 12 January 2016)
• Publish Status: Transferred
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Hyperion
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 364
• Language: English

Reviews

[Berls]

I enjoyed Zero Day - I think it was definitely a good thing that the politics were so minor, since I'm feeling very political these days!

What worked: characters - loved Adie and felt like the portrayal of her brainwashing was fairly well done. I liked the difficulty she had trusting her parents or believing in them.
- I like the narration a lot

What could have worked better:
- I think it required a lot of belief in situations I just can't see going through. President's daughter returned mysteriously and without any harm and there's only one person who doesn't trust that?
- The school situation was weird. Quaker school? For political kids? Really? (maybe that's been real in the past, but wow it felt weird!)
- Her mom spent years creating this program and Adie can change it in one night? If she's so good - why do they need her to steal it? Why can't she just write it too? And since when are so many people skilled hackers? Geez!
- It's left open for a book 2 but for me this should have been a stand alone... I don't see wanting to keep going, even if I did enjoy it.

[katie]

I had such high hopes for this book. I wanted to love it. The premise was amazing. The reviews were glowing. And the book itself was... disappointing. I was 97% done with the book before I felt anything other than indifference for any of the characters. The switching view points bothered me at first because the time I could have spent getting to know Addie or Darrow was instead spent confused about why we needed to know Agent Alvarez's thoughts. All in all, still an awesome premise, not quite as awesome on the execution. 1 star.