by Nate Kenyon
When I was invited to review Day One, I wasn't sure it would be a good idea, as it's not the kind of book I typically pick up (a.k.a. it's not young adult). However, I thought maybe it would be a good thing to try something totally different and see how it worked out for me. The plot at least sounde...
Other reviews at The Book Babe's Reads. I really thought that I would like Day One. I'm a member of the tin foil hat group, so the idea wasn't really that implausible to me, and I thought that it would a great addition to the dystopian genre. I was a tad bit wrong there - unfortunately, I just did...
Significant potential. Significant disappointment. The story just never sunk its teeth into me.
Day One Nate Kenyon ISBN: 978-1-250-01321-7 October 2013 4 Stars *I received this ARC via goodreads first reads* Journalist John Hawke is pursuing the story that will save his troubled career. When James Weller, founder of a startup technology company, agrees to let Hawke write a story about his acc...
Readers' perception of Day One will ultimately come down to whether or not they enjoy mindless fun in their thrillers. I have never seen Cloverfield or watched the entire Terminator movie, so I can't comment on how precise the comparisons are. I have watched the Transformers movies which really remi...
If the premise of Nate Kenyon’s Day One sounds familiar, it should. There are multiple stories about computers becoming sentient beings and turning on their human “masters”. Where the story excels is showing just how filled with computers our lives have become. The action set forth by John Hawke’s f...
For this review and more visit my blogI received Day One for review without requesting it and had never seen nor heard of it before then. I had no real clue what it was, had never heard of the author so I went into reading it blind with no expectations.The blurb said this book was a cross between T...
NetGalley Invite 07/02/2013 via St. Martin's Press - Expected publication: October 1st 2013 by Thomas Dunne Books