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    The Dark Net
    The Dark Net
    The Dark Net
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Dark Net

    Written by Benjamin Percy

    Narrated by David Chandler

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    Hell on earth is only one click of a mouse away in acclaimed writer Benjamin Percy's terrifying new horror novel The Dark Net is real. An anonymous and often criminal arena that exists in the secret, far reaches of the Web, some use it to manage Bitcoins, pirate movies and music, or traffic in drugs and stolen goods. And now, an ancient darkness is gathering there as well. These demons are threatening to spread virally into the real world unless they can be stopped by members of a ragtag crew: Twelve-year-old Hannah, who has been fitted with the Mirage, a high-tech visual prosthetic to combat her blindness, wonders why she sees shadows surrounding some people. A technophobic journalist named Lela has stumbled upon a story nobody wants her to uncover. Mike Juniper-a one-time child evangelist who suffers from personal and literal demons-has an arsenal of weapons stored in the basement of the homeless shelter he runs. And Derek, a hacker with a cause, believes himself a soldier of the Internet, part of a cyber army akin to Anonymous. They have no idea what the Dark Net really contains.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateAug 1, 2017
    ISBN9781501949951
    Author

    Benjamin Percy

    BENJAMIN PERCY has won a Whiting Award, a Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, an NEA fellowship, and the iHeartRadio Award for Best Scripted Podcast. He is the author of the novels The Ninth Metal, The Unfamiliar Garden, The Dark Net, The Dead Lands, Red Moon, and The Wilding; three story collections; and an essay collection, Thrill Me. He also writes Wolverine and X-Force for Marvel Comics. He lives in Minnesota with his family.

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    • 4/5
      So...this one caught me by surprise.

      It came on my radar, because Zuky the Book Bum loved it, and I respect her choices. I read the description and thought it sounded like it was worth a shot.

      And then, I think I sat on it for the better part of a couple of years. God knows why. Just never got around to it. Other books looked sexier.

      Zuky, in her excellent review, states that the summary description for the novel is off, and I have to agree. This really sounds like it's all tech, some more tech, with some tech layered on top. And it sort of is, but mostly isn't. There's a lot of tech, but there's also a whole lotta creepy goodness in the form of demons, and hellhounds, and red right hands, and an ancient woman with...well, powers, and a demon-battling former child preacher.

      Honestly...there's a lot going on in this novel and, with the exception of the author bringing up Hanna right at the beginning, then kind of forgetting about her for the first half of the novel, he does a great job of keeping all the balls in the air.

      But there's one other major selling point here, and that's Percy's narrative style. You know how there's some authors (maybe your John Grishams and your James Pattersons) who can put one word in front of the other, and get the story down, and it's readable, and maybe even drives you forward, but that's about it?

      And you know how there's other authors—much more rare and not often seen out in the wild—who write with a flair, with a lovely turn of phrase, who won't just settle for the first word that comes along, but finds the precise right word or phrase that makes that sentence burst into your mind like fireworks?

      Yeah, Benjamin Percy is that second kind of writer.

      Definitely worth the read. Great writing, great characters, great story, great fun.
    • 2/5
      this is not what i thought it was and not what i really wanted. the story is interesting but the title and blurb are somewhat misleading.
    • 3/5
      Easy, quick reading, but not all that well written.
    • 5/5
      First thought when I finished early, early this morning - WOW!I had such a hard time deciding on reading this book. I loved Benjamin Percy's book "Red Moon" and was so excited to see this one offered by him. However, I was concerned with there being a lot of "geek speak". Well, there was some, but not a lot. I do remember one time when my eyes were crossing but that feeling did not last long. There was a lot of "freak speak" which I was used to in the author's other book.This suspenseful, action packed thriller had me mesmerized. I stayed up way too late to finish it. I kept putting it down to sleep. Then, I would pull it back out and read some more. I could not leave it even though my body was telling me "it will be there in the morning".A great read which I truly enjoyed!Thanks to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Net Galley for providing me with a free e-galley in exchange for an honest, unbiased review.
    • 3/5
      All computers and the whole of the web are possessed. That is all I have to say about this book.

      A review copy of this book was provided by the publisher.