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A review by bookishtiff
The Hive by Barry Lyga, Morgan Baden
2.0
Can I just say I love this cover so much! Also, I don't know what material the dust jack is made out of but it's such a nice texture. Okay, enough talking about the cover, let's move on to the book.
The Hive is a way to punish people for the things they have done or said online. The government has used The Hive to help control crimes online. I theory it's a perfect system to help the human race become better people, but it's flawed. Cassie our main character finds out just how messed up the system really is when she says one joke about the president's kid and it goes viral. She ends up on the run for her life as she's being hunted down for her one post.
Character-wise I didn't really like Cassie but she had a lot more to her than some of the other books I've read. Cassie is consumed with grief after the loss of her father. She likes the Hive and believes in it. But when she moves to a new school Cassie is shown that the Hive can be used for personal gain. I really didn't enjoy Cassie's mom as a character till later on in the book. I didn't like how she was constantly trying to for Cassie to get over her father's death. I didn't think that was right and she should have let Cassie deal with her grief in her own way as long as she's not hurting herself which she wasn't. I do like the group of hackers we meet later on in the book. I feel like they were my favorite characters by far.
Plot-wise the book was fast-paced and it kept me reading. I thought the plot was decent but I feel like it was on the bit of the long side, page wise. Once again not a terrible book but it isn't a five star read for me.
The Hive is a way to punish people for the things they have done or said online. The government has used The Hive to help control crimes online. I theory it's a perfect system to help the human race become better people, but it's flawed. Cassie our main character finds out just how messed up the system really is when she says one joke about the president's kid and it goes viral. She ends up on the run for her life as she's being hunted down for her one post.
Character-wise I didn't really like Cassie but she had a lot more to her than some of the other books I've read. Cassie is consumed with grief after the loss of her father. She likes the Hive and believes in it. But when she moves to a new school Cassie is shown that the Hive can be used for personal gain. I really didn't enjoy Cassie's mom as a character till later on in the book. I didn't like how she was constantly trying to for Cassie to get over her father's death. I didn't think that was right and she should have let Cassie deal with her grief in her own way as long as she's not hurting herself which she wasn't. I do like the group of hackers we meet later on in the book. I feel like they were my favorite characters by far.
Plot-wise the book was fast-paced and it kept me reading. I thought the plot was decent but I feel like it was on the bit of the long side, page wise. Once again not a terrible book but it isn't a five star read for me.