bargainandbooks 's review for:

The Hive by Barry Lyga, Morgan Baden
5.0

This was a fantastic book. A story about a teenage girl named Cassie who is navigating the death of her father, a new life, and new emotions when she is blindsided by “hive justice” after a tasteless but harmless BLINQ. I really liked the parallel drawn from the world we live in. I felt an eerie “this could be where we end up” kind of feeling reading about how people’s actions online are handled in the story by their peers, and how easily manipulated the program is by the government. This is absolutely a book I will be recommending to everyone I know while I lecture them about our online presence and how we should be more careful when hiding behind our screens.