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A review by thatlibrarynerd
Hardwired by Lindsay Currie, Trisha Leaver
2.0
Give it a miss.
Editing, pacing, and atmosphere were major weaknesses in this book and they were distracting. A basic read-through should have caught punctuation problems and basic misuse of homophones. That, or someone really did get "doped up on heroine".
As for pacing, most of the book is spent on dialogue scenes. Regardless of what's going on, there's a dialogue scene. Several chapters are devoted to one conversation early in the book.
Atmosphere... I'll grant you that I read this in daylight, but there was simply no urgency. Readers are informed of the dangers, but it's difficult to feel--because don't worry, characters scared for their lives will still hold a conversation.
Editing, pacing, and atmosphere were major weaknesses in this book and they were distracting. A basic read-through should have caught punctuation problems and basic misuse of homophones. That, or someone really did get "doped up on heroine".
As for pacing, most of the book is spent on dialogue scenes. Regardless of what's going on, there's a dialogue scene. Several chapters are devoted to one conversation early in the book.
Atmosphere... I'll grant you that I read this in daylight, but there was simply no urgency. Readers are informed of the dangers, but it's difficult to feel--because don't worry, characters scared for their lives will still hold a conversation.