A really twisty, turny young adult novel about corporate greed, gentrification, police corruption, and the power of friendship and community. Because, it is when these kids work together that they are able to disrupt those in power. The novel also highlights how our countries have failed their citizens through its cooperation with corporations, oil companies, power, wealth, privilege, and greed. The kids in this novel are diverse, and I loved how unique each were and what each kid brought to their scavenger hunting group. Jax is the puzzler, Yas is the athlete, Spider the hacker, and Han makes himself invisible and knows the hidden areas of Seattle. Their team also showed how important it was to recognize the strengths of each individual within their unit and that no single one was leader because they were all important. There are lots of cool clues that the team must decipher and interpret. Slowly they begin to see an incriminating pattern emerge. It takes trusting each other and forming strong alliances in order to take down the corporate giant that is Roundworld. This book gives hope that there are actual communities who are taking action against the one percent, against capitalism, against those who want to destroy our natural world, and those who are working against a better way of life. There are a lot of tense moments, in which the team is in action or in situations that leave the reader just as breathless. But, there were also a few slow moments in the book. Overall, I loved the characters, the story, and the commentary on how we as communities should be helping each other out to make sure that we can survive and, more importantly, thrive.
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