Leave your body at home.The year is 2341 and Earth is a distant memory. Thousands of people from all over the world, and some from other worlds, enter a vast virtual reality on planet Zeta. Commonly known as the ALT, visitors hope to find what they can’t in their physical world—success, acceptance, pleasure, and above all else, credits, the universal form of money. Sport hacking, gambling, and … hacking, gambling, and pleasure houses are a few of the offerings of the ALT. But there are also dark dynamics lurking within the virtual city.
Seventeen-year-old Stass Tatum is a highly skilled human hacker from the futuristic city of Rourke. She is known on the grid as Deadlock for her dominant, lethal tactics in sport hacking. After meeting a popular elite player, she hatches a plan to jettison her rank into his. But fate has other ideas. A deadly virus wreaks havoc on her plans, and now she must face what death means outside the virtual world.
From the author of Raven’s Sphere, comes this new virtual adventure.
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What an amazing, adventurous, and mind blowing read!! If you are interested in sci-fi and tech then this is DEFINITELY the book for you! The story follows Stass (Raven’s (former) friend in Raven’s Sphere) as she navigates through the tech world known as the ALT. She is most comfortable there because she NEVER ventures out of her home due to being agoraphobic. She has just one friend in the real world named Kaden, who is now an Arta agent. She pushes everyone away who tries to get to close to her because her best childhood friend (Raven) betrayed her in a horrible way. She has been framed for a deadly virus called “Dark Drift” and the only person who can clear her name is an Elite named Wraith. Along her journey, she learns to trust others as her life depends on trusting them as well as them trusting her. Your heart will pound with adrenaline and excitement as Stass navigates through the Deep ALT to reach the Shadow ALT in what I can only explain as a “space mountain type of ride” on a railway of code. You will laugh at how the characters dialog with each other and really feel connected to them as well and to their story lines. A MUST READ for all. Excited to read even more from this author as her storytelling is magnificent!! xo
This review is for the audio book.
I enjoyed this book. The main reason I got this book was because I love the narrator and know that anything is involved with is going to be great and I was right. This is part of a series and it wasn’t until I was about half way through that I connected the two books and I realised I had met Stass before.The two books although set in the future are very different so you don’t need to have listened to one to enjoy the other. Although not being a gamer and having no experience with the virtual world the author has crafted a clever story that was easy for me to follow along with, especially if you have a good imagination because this book will certainly test it and open your mind up to a whole new world. Its a bit like watching tv but crafted with words instead. I love the characters and the way they become friends over the course of the adventure.
Stass is an Agoraphobia and the only time she leaves her apartment is when she hooks up to the ALT, the virtual world is her playground. As a gamer and hacker she has reached the top of her league and if she wants to progress she needs to get noticed by an elite and secure sponsorship. She sets her sights on Rafe and not just because of his skills but when he notices her things start to go wrong and she is accused of something that could very well lead to get death in the real world. Someone is targeting player and infecting them so they are no longer connected to there real world bodies. Now Stass is being accused of the crime and the only one that knows she is not guilty is trapped. Stass has always been a loner but now she will have to find some people she can trust to help her prove her innocence?
As I said I got this book because the narrator is one of my favourites and she doesn’t disappoint this time around either.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.