Hana Hsu and the Ghost Crab Nation

De: Sylvia Liu

Narrado por: Carolyn Kang

Duración: 8 h y 58 m

Resumen del Editor

“A refreshing, imaginative take on a cyberpunk future, filled with wickedly cool technology and unraveling intrigue!”–Xiran Jay Zhao, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Iron Widow and Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor

Perfect for fans of Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee, this thrilling, cinematic sci-fi novel follows Hana Hsu’s mission to save herself—and her friends—from a dangerous plot to control their minds.

Hana Hsu can’t wait to be meshed.

If she can beat out half her classmates at Start-Up, a tech school for the city’s most talented twelve-year-olds, she’ll be meshed to the multiweb through a neural implant like her mom and sister. But the competition is fierce, and when her passion for tinkering with bots gets her mixed up with dangerous junkyard rebels, she knows her future in the program is at risk.

Even scarier, she starts to notice that something’s not right at Start-Up—some of her friends are getting sick, and no matter what she does, her tech never seems to work right. With an ominous warning from her grandmother about being meshed, Hana begins to wonder if getting the implant early is really a good idea.

Desperate to figure out what’s going on, Hana and her friends find themselves spying on one of the most powerful corporations in the country—and the answers about the mystery at Start-Up could be closer to home than Hana’s willing to accept. Will she be able to save her friends—and herself—from a conspiracy that threatens everything she knows?

©2022 Sylvia Liu (P)2022 Listening Library

Enjoyed Every Minute!!

I thoroughly enjoyed everything about this novel! First, the narrator was perfectly cast. She had a great middle grade voice and distinguished beautifully between the various characters with subtle voice changes. The story itself moves at a face pace. The world-building is top notch and consistent and the characters are well-realized and relatable.  The predicted tech is believable and slightly, but not too scary, befitting the target middle-grade audience. I particularly liked that this book is not dumbed down just because it’s for younger readers. I also loved a female main characters who is STEM savvy, smart and strong. Finally, this would make a terrific classroom book. It’s well-crafted with a lot of interesting possible discussion topics around privacy, technology, globalization, and the like.