The novel wasn't captivating, I wasn't exactly bored while reading it. This definitely hindered my reading experience. One sentence we are in Paris headquarters, the next we already in the car on the way home. I couldn't connect with either of the main characters (Scott the hacker and a tech-modified Sonia who was a part EvilCorp).
The events were quite predictable and the dry way of telling the story distanced myself from the events and the characters. The narration doesn't have a spark, doesn't have something that would make it special. The story is told in two povs which were really hard to separate one from the other. Our protagonist Scott happens to be ace, the story isn't revolved around his sexuality, because EvilCorp to dismantle? secret bases to hack? and sister to safe? I mean the ace rep is good, as far as I, who isn't a part of ace spectrum, can tell. I wanted to like this book so much because 1) hackers, 2) sci-fi, 3) asexual main character. A story about Scott looking for his sister and wreaking havoc on EvilCorp (uhm I mean UltSyn). Hello World is a sci-fi novel set in unspecified time in the future, mostly in London.
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