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The Anti-Social Network (2000)

by Sadie Hayes(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 1

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English

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Young Adult Fiction

series

The Start-Up

review 1: Book two picks up a couple of months after book one ended. The twins are surviving and thriving, despite losing their scholarship. the decision to join the incubator has given Amelia the push she needed to make the most of her programming and the money to keep both her and Adam in school and able to live. Out of the blue a new enemy emerges from their darkest past to blackmail them. The Family - former foster parents - have damning evidence against Adam and if Amelia won't do what they demand, he could be in big trouble.Then there are the love interests...why won't Lisa (the daughter of an enemy) just let Adam take their romance public? What is it about Sundeep's eyes that make Amelia want to swoon? Book two definitely had a more YA feel to it. It was still incred... moreibly absorbing and I devoured it as quickly as my breaks would allow. Sometimes, Amelia came across as too smart and we never really get a sense of exactly what Adam is doing there...unless it is just to play a naive little boy living out of his element and jealous of his sister.
review 2: A serial novel is an interesting concept, and Sadie Hayes The Start-Up picks an ideal topic for ebook serial fiction, with genius programmer Amelia Dorey persuaded by her more worldly twin brother Adam to turn programs into dollars.The Anti-Social Network is the second episode in the series, a novella with enough length and depth to provide enjoyable reading. The author does a good job of creating and following a single story arc within the longer tale, and Amelia and Adam’s lives cross one more major hurdle, nicely introduced at the start, as they head for the next.A wise guide has provided location and facilities for the start-up, but other guides of uncertain loyalties bring in the world of high finance and deceit, while old friends and new provide problems and hope.Some of the technical aspects seemed somewhat implausible to me, but the feel of software’s ebb and flow, the gap between friendship and sounding board, and the allure of the secure are very nicely drawn. I enjoyed the first and second parts of this tale and am looking forward to part three.Disclosure: I received a free ecopy of part 1 and bought part 2 for myself, sufficiently intrigued to wonder where the story would go. less

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