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Pretty good futuristic twist on mind expansion. An interesting premise on how intelligence would bring world peace.
Amped - Another Thought Provoking Pure Fun Adrenaline Ride - I Love This Series!Rating: 5 of 5 (RMBOA Recommended)Author: Douglas E. RichardsFormat: Kindle, PaperbackDetermined to fight for a greater humanity but knowing the megalomanic side effects her IQ boosting technology can create, Kira Miller and her husband David Desh, along with their colleagues, set up a hidden organization to create their breakthroughs. Aptly named Icarus, after the Greek god who flew too close to the sun due to his h...
I was really torn on what to rate this one at, to be honest. The author's writing has definitely matured from the first book, which I'm very happy about (the exclamation points are kept to a minimum, happily). The story itself is what has left me pondering how many stars, though. On one hand, it's brilliant & I loved certain aspects of the story - I am a HUGE fan of any story that makes me think & the philosophical elements in both stories in the series have really been awesome. BUT, I also foun...
AMPED picks up just a short time after WIRED ends. If you thought everything was settled at the end of WIRED and the future looked rosy, think again! Now the stakes for humanity and the future are even higher, and Kira, Desh, Matt, and the others must figure out how to fight their enemies while simultaneously saving the world. A great sci-fi thriller.
I LOVED Wired, the first in the series - awesome book. But this one was way too far fetched for me. I liked the philosophy of the first book and this carries it on but it just wasn't in the realms of plausibility as a techno-thriller and yet also wasn't sci-fi.
This book was very nearly as good as the first. Another fantastic adventure that builds on everything set up in the initial release. More from the core protagonists that readers have already come to love, and obviously there are new bad guys this time around. The good news is, the bad guys are so bad they don't disappoint. Not only are there multiple antagonists but there is a cataclysmic threat to the world. When Doug Richards wants to raise the stakes, he knows how to turn the threat dial.This...
I am now a HUGE fan of Douglas E. Richards. I've loved every book of his that I've read so far. Wired and Amped were fast moving adventure / sci-fi thrillers with futuristic nanotechnology that could well become realized! These were page turners I couldn't put down! Thanks for creating a brilliant, world-saving female character like Kira Miller. Love David Desh and the compter-hacking Matt too! Looking forward to more books by Douglas E. Richards!
Kinda predictableSo, all the novel ideas - sped-up brain, out-thinking everybody else, ..., were the anchor of the first book. This one just spins a yarn with the previous ideas (and characters). The yarn is fine, but derivative of the first book, with lots of plot twists arising from characters having super-brains, I *will* give the author credit for plot twists.Read this book if you like the writer / style, but don't expect new Sci-Fi ground.
When I started reading this sequel, I was curious where the author would take the story. After all, what do you do with these "enhanced IQs"? Kira Miller, the brilliant geneticist who created the gelcap that could allow your IQ to climb to unprecedented levels, is now happily partnered with David Desh or is she? When she comes across some damning evidence that David has kept secret from her, she doesn't know what to believe. Is this the same man she fell in love with? At the same time David has
Even worse than the first book, Wired. Pretentious is a great word to describe the book as is self delusional, poorly written, two dimensional, haughty, cartoonish, ridiculous, need I go on? Well, I will anyway. The sad part is that it could have been good, I actually like the concept of an intelligence enhancing pill. I had hoped for a contemporary Flowers for Algernon, instead I got Mighty Mouse. And for all it's endless lectures on science as if to prove just how smart the writer is without a...
Ridiculous, what book are these 5 star reviews reading?Another reviewer said it already, this is beyond ridiculous. Of all the things that are hinted at being able to do with a high IQ, uniting the world with a hoax run by a personality you don't notice is, well, ridiculous. Desh for all his 'awesomeness' as a spec-ops soldier that got him 'recruited' in the first book, hasn't learned anything since he left the military. How many fake deaths have there been in this series? Kira, who proactively
Excellent follow upIt was great because I'm a sci-fi fan, I always love when new energies are revealed and mankind has to work together thrown in with the idea of enhanced intelligence. S hats off to the movie "Lucy" with Scarlett Johansson the enhanced mins theory. There is actually proof that think tanks are thinking about this LOL😄
