Hex (Hex)

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Summary: A TOTALLY AWESOME BOOK!!!
Review: Hex is an amazing sci-fi trilogy that will keep you enthralled from the very first page. In the late 21st century, scientists created the Hex gene to improve human knowledge of computers. The project was later abandoned, but mutants with the gene, known as Hexes, continued to be sought out and exterminated.
Years later, Raven, a Hex and possibly the most dangerous teenager in the world, along with her brother, Wraith, travel to London in search of their younger sister, Rachel. There they meet Kez, a streetrat, and Ali, a popular and rich girl who has just discovered that she is a Hex. Soon the group becomes engaged in a dangerous mission that could cost them their lives.
Containing interesting characters with distinct personalities, excellent descriptions, and an imaginative portrayal of the future, Hex is one of the best science fiction books you'll come by and the fitting start to a great series.

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Summary: Four out of five isn't bad
Review: I read all three books in the trilogy over a year ago and have recently come to pick them up again. The best feature of the book is the idea, I love reading sci-fi books that don't actually feel sci-fi - the books that I enjoy explaining the plot to friends and family. The reason I didn't give the book five stars was because there wasn't enough romance, and there is always room for romance - where are we without it? Also I would have loved to have more information about the way of life that far ahead into the future, on a more day to day level. The last reason is because i didn't like Raven, although i know why she was cold and heartless I think hope goes a long way but i never felt she would change - it is definitely a first for me to love a book and not love the main character. Despite this the book left me wanting to find out more so it definitely earned four stars.

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Summary: Hackers
Review: if youve seen the old movie hackers, then you'll love this. I love the dysfunctional family life of brother and sisters, the way the main character is a female, who feels alienated from the world around her because everyone else feels inferiror to her talents. Its a well written series, ive read all three hex books, and i was compleatly satisfied...hmmm, well it woul dhave been good if there was a little romance, but you probably cant have that. You fall in love with Raven, and hate the people she hates, you find them utterly annoying :D its a gotta read

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Summary: Great for all ages
Review: Raven is an illegal being - a person who can access computer systems through the interface of her own mind. The genetic experiments of the twenty-first century led to a genetic mutation where certain people become a human computer. These people are known as a Hex. Hex's are dangerous, and are executed for no other reason than they are Hex. Somewhere in the streets of London Raven and her brother Wraith are looking for the missing member of their family - their sister Rachael. Could she be a Hex too?

This book is an awesome combination of science fiction and action adventure. In the future a new type of human has evolved, one that can surf the net and hack into computers with nothing more than a computer terminal and thier own minds. In many ways this book is like the Matrix meets Dark Angel. Raven is a strong character that can leave you gasping as she ruthlessly uses everything at her disposal to stay alive and get what she needs. All of that strength will be needed when she breaks into the organisation that wants to see her dead.

Although this book shows a very bleak future, there is hope that the following books in the series will see Raven and her family show the world what really happens to children and teenagers who are accussed of being a Hex. A gripping novel in a series that should not be missed.

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Summary: If only we could all use computers so easily
Review: Raven is an illegal being - a person who can access computer systems through the interface of her own mind. The genetic experiments of the twenty-first century led to a genetic mutation where certain people become a human computer. These people are known as a Hex. Hex's are dangerous, and are executed for no other reason than they are Hex. Somewhere in the streets of London Raven and her brother Wraith are looking for the missing member of their family - their sister Rachael. Could she be a Hex too?

This book is an awesome combination of science fiction and action adventure. In the future a new type of human has evolved, one that can surf the net and hack into computers with nothing more than a computer terminal and thier own minds. In many ways this book is like the Matrix meets Dark Angel. Raven is a strong character that can leave you gasping as she ruthlessly uses everything at her disposal to stay alive and get what she needs. All of that strength will be needed when she breaks into the organisation that wants to see her dead.

Although this book shows a very bleak future, there is hope that the following books in the series will see Raven and her family show the world what really happens to children and teenagers who are accussed of being a Hex. A gripping novel in a series that should not be missed.

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Summary: HEX is a book that you are cursed to enjoy.
Review: The most dangerous person in the 24th century is a 15-year-old girl named Raven --- and officially she doesn't even exist. Why? Raven is a Hex --- part human, part super computer. In the late 21st century, Hexes were created by genetically enhancing human children. Hexes can reach into the Net and access information systems from around the world. They can move around the World Wide Web the way other teenagers stroll around a mall. Raven has awesome powers --- she can control computers with her thoughts. Raven is in hiding, though, and she would like to keep it that way. If the secret government finds out that she is alive, she will be killed.

Children with the Hex gene must either fight for their lives, hide away, or be exterminated. The government doesn't want its people to know that Hexes exist. The CPS, a secret government agency, is on a mission to seek and destroy all Hexes. Most die no matter what they do. Raven's sister, Rachel, is already presumed dead, even though she had never shown any sign of being a Hex. While searching the Internet for some sign of Rachel's existence, Raven runs across another fate that Hexes face. A fate worse than death. It is this discovery that will eventually lead Raven, along with her foxy non-Hex brother Wraith, to the place where Hexes die.

HEX is book one of what promises to be an outstanding series by Rhiannon Lassiter. Lassiter does a great job of making the people in her books as real as possible. Even the minor characters have great personalities.

There is a reference to a New York disaster and some talk about terrorism, which takes some of the fun out of this book. This is minor, though, and doesn't take away from the fact that HEX is a book that you are cursed to enjoy.

--- Reviewed by Kat, recent high school grad and young adult fiction diva


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Summary: Well Done
Review: this book was interesting- i found myself caring for the characters and the action was amazing

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Summary: WOW!!!
Review: This book was wonderful! It's very similer to Philip Pullman's The Dark Materials only not so sad. Very believeable and not at all faky.

The main character blows off the mushy girl herione tactic with the whole 'I have to save the whole world by myself' attitude that has helped make girls known as Super-Sexy Twitterbrains.Raven is definetly someone I would want around.She is one tuff chic, simply trying to survive in a world were her brains aren't welcome. Litterly.

Raven has mutant genes that enable her to be perfectly in tune with any computer, better than the best hacker, making her illegal, and very dangerous. She's helping her brother find their sister, Rachel, and that means going to the place of certain death, the CPS's lab. The CPS had the legal right to dispose of anyone suspected of having the Hex gene. That means if she get's caught, that's the end. On the way she makes some friends and tons of enemies. The end hinted at some romance in the new book, Hex:Shadows. That's something I'm definetly getting as soon as it comes out!