Review: An emotional roller coaster
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 23, 2012
I received this book free to read and review.Although I do hope the American prisons are not as harsh as portrayed in this book and some of the characters particularly Sam an FBI agent are one dimensional the book is written in such a way that it pulls at your emotions. The central character Ariel was abused as a child and later raised by "Poppi" who encouraged her to develop into a brilliant programmer. However everything goes wrong when she writes a virus to test an email systems security and gets convicted and sentenced to a year in prison for hacking into the system and introducing a virus. I thought this was quite weak and a decent lawyer would have got her acquitted.  From there on in it is a fast paced emotional roller coaster that I read in a single session getting very involved in the story. This is the first in the series but stands well by itself and although I rarely buy books, there are enough free ones out there, I will certainly buy the next in the series.