Bluescreen by Dan Wells

Bluescreen (Mirador, #1)

by Dan Wells

Bluescreen is a stunning deluge of imagination, filled with suspense and twists and unforgettable characters. This book is just plain awesome.”—James Dashner, bestselling author of The Maze Runner

From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling 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 twenty-four 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.

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5 of 5 stars

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I had the pleasure of meeting Dan Wells when he visited Tri-Cities washington.  This book is set up in the future but it portrays things that are very scary close to what can really happen in our life times.  The way we rely so much on technology is ingrained in this story and then you add in the scary aspect of a drug that is introduced into your brain.  

Scenes that can be played out in our own lives, kids getting drugs at school and bringing them home thinking it some hot new game.  Gang fights in breaking out in los angeles and families paying other gangs to watch out for them.  The author did a fantastic job with the start to a action paced series.  I am on tour for the next two books in the series so keep an eye on my blog for those upcoming review. 

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