Monday, March 14, 2016

NetGalley Review

*Book source ~ NetGalley
Author ~ Daniel Pembrey
Published ~ 15 July 2013
Genre ~ Thriller
Pages ~ 338



My Rating ~ 1 bite
DNF at 8%

From Goodreads:
It’s the dawn of social media; Facebook is unknown and World of Warcraft is the world's biggest online game. An unhinged Hungarian-American Internet magnate is trying to take over it all, using soon-to-IPO web sensation Clamor.us. But nefarious content is coming to light on the Clamor social networking site, pointing to sex trafficking.

Enter Natalie Chevalier, glamorous ex-Head of Security at a large Seattle software company... with a father she never knew, a disastrous track record with men and a scandal that forced her from her old job.

I had to DNF at 8% due to excessive use of technobabble and mind-numbing stock and financial-type run on. I swear my eyes actually glazed over. 8% in and I had not a single clue about the story and zero feel for the characters. I feared the rest of the book would be just as bad so I jumped ship. The book is fiction, not non-fiction. Being factually correct is one thing, explaining everything in minute detail is another.  An editor should really have culled all that.

2 comments:

  1. OUCH! I hate it when that happens. The book cover is not too bad though. :)

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    1. Ikr, but what ya gonna do? *shrugs* There are a couple of book covers for this one. They aren't bad. :)

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