Dark Mind Rising

Name: Dark Mind Rising
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Julia Keller
ISBN: 9781987130348

Author: Julia Keller

Series: The Dark Intercept #2

Narrator: Laura Bannister

Unabridged: 8 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: JournalStone Publishing

Published: 01/01/2018

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Action & Adventure, Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Julia Keller continues her Dark Intercept science fiction series with Dark Mind Rising, a thrilling, speculative murder mystery set in a chilling future where citizens believe they're free after years of emotional surveillance only to discover a killer is targeting their deepest fears.When the state is no longer watching, what will you give to feel safe?New Earth, 2296. Two years after the destruction of a universal surveillance system called the Intercept, New Earth struggles to keep crime under control. The citizens are free, but not protected.Violet Crowley, the eighteen-year-old daughter of New Earth's founder, has opened Crowley & Associates, a private detective agency, to handle the overflow from the overburdened police force.Violet's first case―a death written off as a suicide―becomes an obsession. Soon a series of similar deaths leads Violet to believe the Intercept is not only still running―it's in the hands of a killer.

About Julia Keller

Julia Keller is the cultural critic at the Chicago Tribune and winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. She is a guest essayist on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and has been a contributor on CNN and NBC Nightly News. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Judith

HUGE content warning for suicide. HUGE. Don’t read this book if you aren’t comfortable reading fairly graphic descriptions of said act. I’m usually a fairly robust reader and this made me super uncomfortable. I appreciate this is the point, it’s supposed to be unsettling, but reader discretion is ad......more

Goodreads review by Laura

Not reading the first book will be a problem for readers. The other problem is the pacing and some of the big action scenes - many were too fast to figure out what exactly was happening, while others seemed poorly plotted. eARC provided by publisher.......more

Goodreads review by Reccabecca

Violet and Kendall destroyed almost all of the Intercept, a system used to maintain societal order using the emotions. Two years later, Violet has her own detective agency and Kendall is in the new police force. When Violet is hired to look into a recent suicide, she wants to chalk it up to the deni......more

Goodreads review by Elysa

"Dark Mind Rising" is an okay story, but I never connected to it and will probably forget all about it fairly quickly. I didn't particularly like the main characters. I didn't read the first book, so I may be missing some characterization nuance. However, Violet just sucks. She's not a bad guy or an......more