Hacktivist #2 (Hacktivist, #2) by Alyssa Milano

Hacktivist #2 (Hacktivist, #2) Reviews

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  Patrick

  Decent (not great) art. I imagine the story would be more interesting if the reader were actually a hacker. I found it to be slightly boring and redundant. Rhw old "The world is coming to an end because of the hackers" plot, seen it before.
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  Francesca Giardiello

  La storia e i personaggi iniziano a delinearsi ma le parti e gli obiettivi appaiono ancora confusi. Non è una lettura spiacevole ma neanche esaltante.
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  Questingforaquest

  Urgh, now I'm disappointed I waited so long to read this and did as much work as I did to track down the rest of the series!
  
  Basically, a pop star has read the news and is writing a fanfiction of real people where Edward Snowden-with-Asperger's and Marc Zuckerburg-with-a-dash-of-Tony-Stark are biffles except for their differing values and ideas about what to do with their kinda-more-secure-Facebook. Their social network's algorithm is incredibly powerful and no one is worried about that or thinks that their idea to be a PRISM-invulnerable Facebook might not work. Of course the feds catch up with them, because Big Brother knows everything or something, and despite veiled threats about what will happen to them if they don't comply and despite their social network's business plan, they of course get in bed with the people they're trying to protect users from...?
  
  It just reads like bad realfic or at worst a really poorly disguised "what I want to happen" taken from the news. The popstar getting credit for this isn't even listed as a writer but as a "creator", so you know she jotted down an outline and handed it off to other people to do the real work and then gets credit and the paychecks for it. The relationship between Nate and Ed--yes, she couldn't even be bothered to change the character's name from the inspiration...paging Veronica Roth?--has been done so many times before and is utterly predictable. Nate comes across as hopelessly and unrealistically naive for where he is in the world, Ed is a bad stereotype of every chaotic-good nerd-prodigy mastermind ever, and our femme fatale CIA agent, and the people she works for, are villains in the cartoonish sense that makes you know, right from the first panels of her appearance in the story, that our boys--or at least one of them--will be deceived when the government they thought was doing the right thing turns out NOT TO BE GAAAASP HOW COULD WE HAVE GUESSED???
  
  I'm kind of wondering if the first two issues are only setting the stage for the actual plot or something in the later two, but I'm not giving this series that much credit. Unoriginality kills me, celebrities who hire ghostwriters and then take all the credit for the work kill me, fanfiction of real people kills me--especially when so poorly diguised--so while I bought the whole series before reading it, I now don't know if I'll even open the last two. I definitely won't be subscribing to the volume two that's about to be released. An extra star for the art, but that's it.