Unleashed (Jinxed #2)
by Amy McCulloch (Author)
Armed with their companioneering and coding skills and accompanied by their loyal bakus, Lacey Chu and her friends attempt a rescue mission deep in the heart of a sinister transnational tech corporation.
When Lacey Chu wakes up in a hospital room with no memory of how she got there, she knows something went really wrong. And with her cat baku, Jinx, missing in action and MONCHA, the company behind the invention of the robot pet, threatening her family, she isn't sure who to turn to for answers. When Lacey is expelled and her mom starts acting strangely after the latest update from MONCHA, Lacey and her friends work together to get to the bottom of it and discover a sinister plot at the heart of the corporation. Lacey must use all her skills if she has a chance of stopping MONCHA from carrying out their plans. But can she take on the biggest tech company in North America armed with only a level 1 robot beetle and her friends at her side?
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School Library Journal
Gr 4-6-This immediate sequel to Jinxed (2020) picks up with our hero, budding engineering genius Lacey Chu, in the hospital recovering from a mysterious coma, and missing her beloved "baku" electronic companion, Jinx. Her memory of recent events is spotty, but she knows that all is not well at MonchaCorp, the company entity that employs, trains, informs, and entertains most of her city and the wider world. She's not sure whom she can trust, but with the help of some old friends and neighbors (and some unexpected informants), she realizes she's in a race against time to keep everyone she knows from being "updated" into pleasant, sedate, ambitionless automatons. McCulloch taps into real concerns about the ubiquity of smart tech and data collection, presenting Lacey and her allies with a series of twists that make it increasingly clear how little they can control or conceal from a once-benign corporation-but the author shies from any real shift in ideas, resolving the plot with a weak promise of corporate responsibility once the villains are removed. VERDICT Predictable but pleasant, this is a fun, unchallenging read, full of deus ex machina solutions and lucky breaks. The talking animal robots don't hurt!
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Kirkus
The diverse team’s determination and resourcefulness mesh with and support Lacey’s resilience and drive. A fast-paced duology closer full of STEM adventures. (Science fiction. 9-13).
JUV001000 - Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure
JUV014000 - Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women
JUV036020 - Juvenile Fiction | Technology | Inventions
