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Defiance Pattern
- Beautiful Resistance, Book 1
- Narrated by: Persephone Rose
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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Summary
High-tech mercenaries find themselves pitted against free-running revolutionaries as global corporate warfare becomes centered around a struggling island nation and the freedom fighters defending their home.
Hayden Cole is a slinger for the mega-corporation Union Americana, one of the hacker elite who wage info wars in the immersive virtual realm of MassNet. He has been assigned to a task force bound for the Philippines, where he is joined by an assortment of engineers, security operatives, and Laine 2.0, the Union's most deadly cyborg assassin. A new energy source which could yield a world changing new source of clean energy. Each of the primary corporate powers have sent task forces to the island, and economic competition turns violent as the opposing operatives race to find the source. Standing against all of them is a group of local resistance fighters with strange abilities and who may yet prove to be not quite human.
As slingers jack into MassNet to battle with kill programs, soldiers and cyborgs clash in the streets with blades and bullets, all to the backdrop of a world left behind by the progress of a neon future in this action-packed cyberpunk thriller.
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- Norma Miles
- 13-05-18
Downtime is for amateurs.
Having just finished the book, this reader's head is still spinning, trying to pull out of the chaos and madness of battle. Frenetic rather than fast, we follow a small team of the best of Union Americano, one of the three giant corporations straddling the world after the third war, who have been sent to secure a new power source from the Philippines. When they arrive, they find that both Asia Prime and EBlock are already there before them. And there is another group, too, agile and almost invisible - who are they?
Although several protagonists are introduced, and interact with each other, the story mostly follows the Union's top stringer, Hayden,as he defends against hacking attacks and battles with his counterpart in Asia Prime, and also Laine, a cyber enhanced killer who loves her work, with whom Hayden has often worked before.
Pleasantly voiced Persephone Rose reads this ultra fast paced story clearly throughout, with good cadence, intonation and understanding matching the text's intensity. Good individual character voicings also enhance the narration allowing the reader to become fully immersed in the action.
The ending is sudden. There is a completeness to the story although it is obviously only the beginning of a series and it left this reader wanting more. My thanks to the rights holder of Defiance Pattern for gifting me a complimentary copy, at my request, via Audiobook Boom. As the book progressed, it became increasingly immersive and I look forward to continuing in the company of these increasingly beset and hard fighting techno protagonists in future books.
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- MR
- 14-05-18
A great read for sci-fi and action fans
I really liked the setting of this story I have not read/listened to anything where hackers will battle each other whilst people are also fighting in the real world and I found it really refreshing. The characters are all likeable, each with distinctive voices preventing any confusion and the storyline kept going at a fast pace without losing its detail.
Overall I really liked this story and I will be looking out the for next installment.
Please note that I was provided with a copy of this audiobook to provide a non-biased review.
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