Girl Gone Viral, Arvin Ahmadi
Girl Gone Viral, Arvin Ahmadi
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Girl Gone Viral

Author: Arvin Ahmadi

Narrator: Jorjeana Marie

Unabridged: 10 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/21/2019

Synopsis

"Smart, timely and riveting."--The New York Times Book Review

Perfect for fans of Warcross and Black Mirror, Girl Gone Viral is the inventive and timely story of a seventeen-year-old coder's catapult to stardom.

For seventeen-year-old Opal Hopper, code is magic. She builds entire worlds from scratch: Mars craters, shimmering lakes, any virtual experience her heart desires.

But she can't code her dad back into her life. When he disappeared after her tenth birthday, leaving only a cryptic note, Opal tried desperately to find him. And when he never turned up, she enrolled at a boarding school for technical prodigies and tried to forget.

Until now. Because WAVE, the world's biggest virtual reality platform, has announced a contest where the winner gets to meet its billionaire founder. The same billionaire who worked closely with Opal's dad. The one she always believed might know where he went. The one who maybe even murdered him.

What begins as a small data hack to win the contest spirals out of control when Opal goes viral, digging her deeper into a hole of lies, hacks, and manipulation. How far will Opal go for the answers--or is it the attention--she's wanted for years?

About The Author

Arvin Ahmadi grew up outside Washington, DC. He graduated from Columbia University and has worked in the tech industry. When he's not reading or writing books, he can be found watching late-night talk show interviews and editing Wikipedia pages. Down and Across is his first novel, followed by Girl Gone Viral.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ꮗ€♫◗☿ ❤️ on May 12, 2022

I wanted this to be better I liked the premise of this book and it started off solid, but I began to get a bit bored about half way through the book. Then at about 70%, things really picked up, but too much started happening. The main character began changing so much as to be unlikeable and the main......more

Goodreads review by Emma on June 16, 2019

I received a copy of this book from Penguin Teen. I had no obligation to read or review this book and all opinions are my own.......more

Goodreads review by Adah on May 25, 2019

Girl Gone Viral was disappointing. It started well and then it went downhill. The novel lost it's compelling edge. I actually expected a lot from the title.......more

Goodreads review by L.A. on October 05, 2019

Slightly but not totally tongue-in-cheek trigger warning: absolutely not for students (and their parents) who are applying to colleges, especially Stanford. This book just ratchets up admissions anxiety a hundred-fold. Armadi has written about a fictional high school in Palo Alto but he himself went......more

Goodreads review by Emma on June 02, 2019

3.5 stars. I really enjoyed the first 2/3 of this, thought it. Was a 5 star read but I found the last third to be an anti climax and felt a bit let down and disappointed.......more

Quotes

Raves for Girl Gone Viral:

"Tense, twisty, and oh-so-timely, Girl Gone Viral is the perfect thriller for the virtual reality era. Don’t start this book unless you can finish in one sitting. I loved it!”--Brendan Reichs, New York Times bestselling author of Nemesis

“In Opal’s story, Arvin Ahmadi has crafted a timely and gripping sci-fi tale, grounded in the technology that links us, and what finding ourselves within it can cost.”—Alex London, bestselling author of Proxy and Black Wings Beating

"A fast-paced Black Mirror episode with an endearing teenage protagonist." —Marie Claire Magazine

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