Description: For seventeen-year-old Opal Hopper, code is magic. She builds entire worlds from scratch: Mars craters, shimmering lakes, any virtual experience her heart desires.
But she can’t code her dad back into her life. When he disappeared after her tenth birthday, leaving only a cryptic note, Opal tried desperately to find him. And when he never turned up, she enrolled at a boarding school for technical prodigies and tried to forget.
Until now. Because WAVE, the world’s biggest virtual reality platform, has announced a contest where the winner gets to meet its billionaire founder. The same billionaire who worked closely with Opal’s dad. The one she always believed might know where he went. The one who maybe even murdered him.
What begins as a small data hack to win the contest spirals out of control when Opal goes viral, digging her deeper into a hole of lies, hacks, and manipulation. How far will Opal go for the answers–or is it the attention–she’s wanted for years?
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Disclaimer: This book was sent to me as a Arc in exchange for my honest review.
Published: May 21st 2019 by Viking Books for Young Readers
Review:
For Opal Hopper coding was her escape and a way to connect with her father who had passed away and the only person who may know the truth behind his death.
While Girl Gone Viral has a great premise of female coders and America in a very digitized future; I felt the ending was too flat for me.
Once Opal found out the truth about her father I really wanted to see how she would process the information. I also kept expecting to see more growth in the characters. However, as the book went on I felt that everyone was starting to become very one-dimensional. instead of being about seniors on their way to university I thought I was reading about grade-schoolers.
The coding and technology was well written and I could tell the Arvin put a lot of thought behind it.
I never once had a problem understanding the tech talk and the storyline itself was very enjoyable.
I just wish the characters had been as enjoyable too.
All in all I give book a four out of five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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