Wired is beyond reality and makes you stretch your arms to try and wrap yourself around the concept. Take a ton of action, a touch cyberpunk, a dash of confusion, two dangerously sexy men, one mixed-up woman, more romance than you would expect and wrap it up all together and you get Wired.
L. Roxanne Zaborovsky has misplaced more than just car keys; she can’t keep her hands on her life. Everything is changing from one moment to the next and there is no pattern to the crazy taking over. One second Rox has no one and the next she has two hunks fighting over her. One minute her day to day is boring and predictable and the next nothing, from office buildings to people, are quite where she left them.
Is Mason the dish who use to date her roommate? Is he trying to help her? Or has he been playing her all along and the British 007, who appears out of no where, really the one trying to save the day? Who can she trust and who is she suppose to fear? The only things Rox is certain of is her life is more screwed up than normal, suddenly full of people and time can’t decide if it is going forward or backward.
This isn’t a perfect novel and it isn’t for everyone. Wired is hard to follow because it is meant to be, although there are places it seems more frustrating than it should have been. And Roxanne goes along with things in the beginning just a touch too easy without demanding more info. Add in the fact this is told from a first person point of view, we should have known more but I think it is possible she was just meant to be a touch nutty. And as much as I hate first person, I think it was the best POV for this type of novel because we are meant to be as confused as the heroine.
Wired is a novel you will know by the end of the first chapter if it is for you. Your breath will catch, you find yourself leaning forward hoping to somehow learn more and learn it faster. Confusion becomes another elements to the story. The reader just has to hold on, free your mind and enjoy the ride. And I think it is one hell of a ride.
Grade: B+
This definitely sounds different and worth a try.
There are some confusing and huh? moments, but I think the reader is supposed to be as confused and intrigued as the main character, Roxanne. I’m almost done with it and think it’s very original.
Regretfully confusing is just one of the problems that this book has for the reader – to be sincere I gave up on it before I threw it against the wall. At least I got some of my money back from Half-Price books. Definitely not a keeper.
Oh yeah… if you don’t make it to the end or at least… third of the way through it you aren’t going to ‘get’ it. And even then I can see people not understanding the wires and the slicing and all that.
One thing to remember with Shomi though is if you don’t like one, you should still look at the others. Each book and each author bring something different to the table.
At least from what I have seen so far. So sorry that one didn’t work for you but really really you may love Driven ;).