Helpful Score: 4
This book just might scare you away from the Internet forever! Great story, intense suspense, keeps you guessing right til the end. Lots of technical computer jargon, but that's what I loved about it. I feel semi-educated as well as thoroughly entertained.
Helpful Score: 3
I thought it was a very successful thriller. It is not easy to craft a compelling story based on software and code issues but Deaver did. "Cryptonomicon," by N. Stephenson, and "Digital Fortress," by D. Brown, are the closest books I can think of to this type of story, but in terms of tightness of plot and ease of narration, I think "The Blue Nowhere" surpasses both. Thoroughly enjoyable.
Helpful Score: 1
chilling
Helpful Score: 1
This was Jeffrey Deaver's second chance. He gets one more, because I didn't particularly enjoy this one either. Again with the continuity errors, and I felt in several cases he spent too much time developing characters that didn't stay in the plot. Also instead of leaving clues in the book that would have given us a chance to figure stuff out, he has his characters, at the end explain everything. They even took turns telling what happened, but none of their clues were listed in the book. A pretty unsatisfactory read, I felt no need to pause and reflect on the "clever" plot.
Helpful Score: 1
This book was awesome - Jeffery Deaver has still got it. I loved the whole thriller/technology blend. I really enjoy learning about computers and I'm addicted to thrillers, so I thought this was a great book!