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By the New York Times bestselling author of High Crimes, Paranoia is a Grisham-esque thriller set in a post-boom 21st century economy. With his personal life in decay, a late twenty-something gets caught in one stupid act that spirals out of control threa
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By Dchriss1 (Winston-Salem NC)
Paranoia had all the elemets to be a classic suspense novel--interesting characters, a believable plot, even a believable love interest. Just when it was getting real interesting with a seemingly inescapable end game, our hero was had. It was as if the writer ran out of energy. Surely a plot line could have continued with a more death or law defying ending, a bigger more complicated double cross on Wyatt. Instead it ended with a HUH?. With a better ending Adam could have been a continued Hero left to fight and get into more scrapes again elsewhere. The world needs more Robin Hoods.
By Evelyn Vaughn
I "read" the audio version of this book and, until the last chapter, would have given it a 5-star rating. Adam is an interesting narrator with a great voice, flawed and yet touchingly hopeful, and in one hell of a fix. The story's short chapters (of which there are almost a hundred) and multiple twists and cliff-hangers make from great suspense and, frankly, I enjoyed reading a thriller that doesn't depend on killers or kidnappers to bring the suspense! But then I got to the end of the book and found myself immensely frustrated, especially after so many hours listening to get there. It just... stops. I felt certain that the audio version had left out a page, a paragraph, even a LINE to clarify the end, but double-checked the print copy and, yeah, that's how it ends. I'd been hoping I'd found a writer I could really enjoy, but to me a good read is like an investment, and this one didn't pay off. So much for Finder. Those of you with a higher tolerance for the indeterminate, however, may very much enjoy Paranoia.
By jei (Tx Hill Country)
I read this while on vacation, and sent a review on my Kindle - I thought. Didn't appear here! Anyway, I loved the book - it was an easy read and kept me interested. Others here thought it was poorly written. Not so! It was written through the eyes of a 27 yr old slacker, and it wouldn't have been as interesting had he been portrayed in Shakespearean verse. Tech-iness, business, and brand name-ism made it a lot of fun and I hope to see a movie called PARANOIA soon!
By Billy Radcliffe
This story goes from one implausible event to another, leading the remarkably unsympathetic protagonist in a juvenile and predictable rags-to-riches/zero-to-hero story. Along the way the reader is brought in to a world of supposedly high-tech corporate culture about which the author apparently has even more ignorance than he has contempt. The characters are shallow, the plot is unengaging, and the first-person narrative makes reading it like living inside the head of a very dull person.
If drivel like this can get published and so well reviewed, it should give confidence to every aspiring writer out there, no matter how bad.
By V. Picciuolo (Tempe, AZ USA)
The other reviewers who gave this book one and two starts had it right. Adam is not believable at all. Once he crosses over to the other company and gets a great apt to live in with a great view, he suddenly turns into someone with all kinds of insight into other people. The characters are one-dimensional and cliched and it's WAY too wordy. The author threw a little bit of everything in there - corporate espionage, poor kid makes it big, sex, humor, sick parent,cranky old man, washed up inventors, secrets, lies, etc etc etc.... too much.
The ending was so bad that it made me angry. I invested a fair amount of time reading this book on my iPod touch and when I read the ending, I couldn't believe it. I'm wondering if there was more that it didn't download!! The ending was one of the worst I've read ---ever.
I'm sorry to those who love the book. I don't get why you do, but then, you probably don't get why I don't love it, either!
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