Code Breakers Alpha Volume 1 Colin F Barnes Books
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Code Breakers Alpha is a futuristic, high-stakes thrill ride. In a post-apocalyptic future, humanity survives within a single domed city run by a shadowy benefactor known only as The Family. Each week the death lottery claims more lives and Gerry Cardle, head of the lottery, inexplicably finds himself the next on the list. Something's wrong with the system. A deadly artificial intelligence has breached security. Gerry has just 7 days to live. Forced off the grid, Gerry has to do the unthinkable willingly leave the city. What he finds in the abandoned lands will shatter his perception of what it means to be human. Everything he had been told before was a lie. In a deadly world of conspiracies, Gerry has to sacrifice everything he loves in order to save it, and time is running out. Look out for the other books in the series Code Breakers Alpha Code Breakers Beta Code Breakers Gamma
Code Breakers Alpha Volume 1 Colin F Barnes Books
I found this dystopian techno-thriller to be a ‘better than average read’ (4 stars). However, there were parts (especially the computer programming details/ jargon) that I found overwhelming. So much so that I had to read this story in several sittings.There are a couple things happening throughout this book all at once; a dsytopian/post apocalyptic storyline, a romance storyline, and a techno-heavy corporate sabotage storyline.
For me, the trick to reading and enjoying this story was to ‘not get too caught up in’ the techno-heavy corporate sabotage plot, which I found mind-numbingly over-complicated, and to keep my eyes (mind) on the books other plot progressions.
It was a good read, don’t get me wrong. It is just that I found this story jumping around from here to there and back again. When I reached the last 1/4th of the book, I found myself asking, "How did this come about?" It seemed that the story had morphed it’s sub-genre once again.
If I were to compare this book to other stories, I would say that if you took a copy of the movie Tron, the book Lawnmower Man and a stack of PC World magazines and threw them into a washing machine in hot water and allowed for shrinkage & color blending, you’d probably get something similar to this story.
It is action-packed, suspenseful, innovative and complex .... Yet it was not always an easy or smooth read.
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Code Breakers Alpha Volume 1 Colin F Barnes Books Reviews
This book made me think of made-for-tv movies that are entertaining enough to keep your attention and are worth putting up with the ads for, but not really something you get really invested in. I put this book down several times because the pacing was kinda off for me. At times it felt like it was going too fast, other times too slow. Yet 90% or so of the book takes course over just a few days, I think.
The characters were interesting enough, if a little predictable, but I just couldn't bring myself to get invested in their story. Again, this may be a pacing issue. I certainly can't blame the world building. The world of Code Breakers is easy enough to see and understand. I even appreciate the diversity of types of survivors, even if some of them are a bit stereotypical. I do wish more of the technology used was a little bit better explained. As it was, a lot of it felt more like it was magic than technology (and yes, I know the quote).
The ending was also very reminiscent of a made-for-tv movie. I read and thought "really?"
The e-book only costs 99 cents and that's a good deal for the entertainment value. I probably won't pick up the second book though.
In a cerebral cyberpunk thrill ride (think Mad Max meets Blade Runner meets Logan's Run) through a dystopian postapocalyptic world run by "The Family," Gerry must sift through cyborgs, AIs, computer viruses, and technological demons to find out who he really is, what he really is, and stop City Earth from being annihilated by a rogue hacker in the meantime.
Barnes effortlessly blends religion, sci-fi, and horror into an unsettling story of survival, identity, and morality. He has created a truly unique world I can't wait to visit again.
This book actually has a spoiler built into it. I've never experienced that. It's in the form of, "In retrospect, he will wish he had."
Wow. Thanks for that.
The other specific thing I didn't like was that at one point the character thinks, "It's too early to tell that person [some thing]". Three sentences later he tells that person that thing.
In general, I thought this book would be good. It certainly started out well enough, even if a little fast-paced. Eventually I found myself looking for pages that didn't exist because things were happening way too fast. The development of the main character is unbelievably fast.
This book should have been double the size; maybe that would have allowed for believable, smooth progression.
When you do reach the end of the book, there isn't an ending. Most books written in a planned series actually have some sort of ending that gives you closure; that's not the case here. It's more of a "tune in next week to see how the good guys get out of this one".
The novel's highly repetitive and utterly derivative outline seems almost like it was created with code and fleshed out frantically
define mainChar(Gerry);
inflict bewilderingKnowledge(mainChar);
delete comfortableLife;
for (0-5) do loop(mainChar)
..... select painfulBlackout,
..... add nearDeathExperience,
..... randomize newSuspiciousChar,>
..... insert puzzlePiece,
..... next madMaxLocation,
..... do hack,
..... get hacked;
return home();
inflict bewilderingKnowledge2(mainChar);
define cliffHanger();
end();
Granted, this stub is crappy code, but the tech and the hacking in this novel were hardly exacting either. Just how much research did the author do? I got the feeling the author isn't as tech-savvy as merely good at following his publisher's orders he was simply given some key terms to utilize, so he did. For example, "VPN" was unnecessarily defined, and then used improperly multiple times. This is a basic telecom concept, and its misuse was impossible to overlook.
I finished it, only to discover no real resolution is given. This is just a teaser for the next novel. (Damn, I hate it when authors do that. Why can't we leave that kind of antic to sleazy clickbait scammers and reality show producers?) Unfortunately there is no character in the first novel I am willing to follow to a second, so we'll never really know how it all turns out for our main character with the nine lives and no clue.
I found this dystopian techno-thriller to be a ‘better than average read’ (4 stars). However, there were parts (especially the computer programming details/ jargon) that I found overwhelming. So much so that I had to read this story in several sittings.
There are a couple things happening throughout this book all at once; a dsytopian/post apocalyptic storyline, a romance storyline, and a techno-heavy corporate sabotage storyline.
For me, the trick to reading and enjoying this story was to ‘not get too caught up in’ the techno-heavy corporate sabotage plot, which I found mind-numbingly over-complicated, and to keep my eyes (mind) on the books other plot progressions.
It was a good read, don’t get me wrong. It is just that I found this story jumping around from here to there and back again. When I reached the last 1/4th of the book, I found myself asking, "How did this come about?" It seemed that the story had morphed it’s sub-genre once again.
If I were to compare this book to other stories, I would say that if you took a copy of the movie Tron, the book Lawnmower Man and a stack of PC World magazines and threw them into a washing machine in hot water and allowed for shrinkage & color blending, you’d probably get something similar to this story.
It is action-packed, suspenseful, innovative and complex .... Yet it was not always an easy or smooth read.
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