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This is a fitting end to the Warcross series. It's as action and emotionally packed as the first book while keeping the revelations and surprises coming at a steady pace.
A surprisingly happy ending to a fun duology. Emika Chen is intent on thwarting Hideo's algorithm, and not just because Zero's pushing her to do it. Emika is pulled in many directions and has to repeatedly question her assumptions as she tries to figure out what's really going on with Zero and the Blackcoats.
The action is swift, and there isn't much time to rest from one moment to another, which I liked. Emika continues to hold true to her aims, though I wish she hadn't mooned over Hideo (who I never trusted, even in book one) as much as she did.
The action is swift, and there isn't much time to rest from one moment to another, which I liked. Emika continues to hold true to her aims, though I wish she hadn't mooned over Hideo (who I never trusted, even in book one) as much as she did.
I liked Wildcard but it didn't blow me away as much as Warcross.
Emika now faces different problems. She knows all about Hideo's plan; by using the Warcross contact lenses he plans to take away free will.
Emika and her Warcross friends plan to stop him in a battle of wills but in order to do so they must team up with Zero.
At times it felt a little predictable, you could see where the story was going. Emika wasn't the strong and determined heroine like in Warcross. She has to second guess herself a lot and her feelings for Hideo becomes one of the main stories in the book, unlike the first one which is more a side plot.
It was a good story but to me it wasn't a good as the first one
3.5 stars (rounded up to 4)
Emika now faces different problems. She knows all about Hideo's plan; by using the Warcross contact lenses he plans to take away free will.
Emika and her Warcross friends plan to stop him in a battle of wills but in order to do so they must team up with Zero.
At times it felt a little predictable, you could see where the story was going. Emika wasn't the strong and determined heroine like in Warcross. She has to second guess herself a lot and her feelings for Hideo becomes one of the main stories in the book, unlike the first one which is more a side plot.
It was a good story but to me it wasn't a good as the first one
3.5 stars (rounded up to 4)
adventurous
dark
slow-paced
Not as good as book one. Lost my attention and I didn't get back to it for a few months.
Summary: Teenage hacker Emika Chen embarks on a mission to unravel a sinister plot and is forced to join forces with a shadowy organization known as the Blackcoats
Summary: Teenage hacker Emika Chen embarks on a mission to unravel a sinister plot and is forced to join forces with a shadowy organization known as the Blackcoats
I FINALLY got my hands on this the other day, and gulped it right down. Just as action-packed as the first one---fewer game-play scenes, though. Satisfying conclusion. Couldn't put it down!
this book was kind of like eating cotton candy... entertaining, at times enjoyable, but ultimately unsubstantial, which is ironic because the ending very heavy-handedly delivered a “moral to the story.” i dislike iron-fisted delivery, especially when it’s telling you what you should’ve gotten out of the experience. there were some unique twists and turns that kept me curious enough to keep reading. the characters and world-building were much the same as the previous novel; what was good and unique about the first book takes on an all-been-done-before feel in this one though.
Not as good as the first book because the ending seemed to drag and it felt like it was lacking a certain charm that the first book had. However, it was a satisfying conclusion to the series and kept me guessing the entire time.
“We fight for survival with everything we’ve got. As if the oxygen mask and the seatbelt and avoidance of a square of chocolate cake might be the thing that saves us. That’s the difference between the real and the virtual. Reality is where you can lose the ones you love. Reality is the place where you can feel the cracks in your heart.”
After reading [b:Warcross|41014903|Warcross (Warcross, #1)|Marie Lu|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1533058119l/41014903._SY75_.jpg|49634052] earlier in the year, I knew I wanted to make it a priority to read the sequel before I forgot everything that happened in Warcross. I really enjoy Emika's character: she is such a strong female main character for young people. Wildcard picks up shortly after the events of Warcross: Emika has figured out everything she thought was true about Hideo isn't. Now Emika is on the run because there's a bounty on her head. New characters enter the story at about every turn and Emika isn't sure who to trust: Zero? The Blackcoats?
All in all, I enjoyed this sequel to Warcross, but not as much as I enjoyed Warcross. I'm a sucker for a good origin story (which is perhaps why I like The Fellowship of the Ring the best out of any of the Lord of the Rings trilogy). I did really appreciate that this was a science fiction story that could be wrapped up in two books, rather than some of these stories that go on and on. I really liked the world Lu wrote in the Warcross world and yet I am slightly terrified about what would happen if this world came to fruition. Technological advances are fantastic until someone uses these advances for their own agenda and then technology becomes a villain on its own.
This book would be appropriate for students in grades 7+.
TW: suicide, drug abuse, gun violence, child abuse
After reading [b:Warcross|41014903|Warcross (Warcross, #1)|Marie Lu|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1533058119l/41014903._SY75_.jpg|49634052] earlier in the year, I knew I wanted to make it a priority to read the sequel before I forgot everything that happened in Warcross. I really enjoy Emika's character: she is such a strong female main character for young people. Wildcard picks up shortly after the events of Warcross: Emika has figured out everything she thought was true about Hideo isn't. Now Emika is on the run because there's a bounty on her head. New characters enter the story at about every turn and Emika isn't sure who to trust: Zero? The Blackcoats?
All in all, I enjoyed this sequel to Warcross, but not as much as I enjoyed Warcross. I'm a sucker for a good origin story (which is perhaps why I like The Fellowship of the Ring the best out of any of the Lord of the Rings trilogy). I did really appreciate that this was a science fiction story that could be wrapped up in two books, rather than some of these stories that go on and on. I really liked the world Lu wrote in the Warcross world and yet I am slightly terrified about what would happen if this world came to fruition. Technological advances are fantastic until someone uses these advances for their own agenda and then technology becomes a villain on its own.
This book would be appropriate for students in grades 7+.
TW: suicide, drug abuse, gun violence, child abuse