Crashland audiobook

This review contains spoilers for the previous book.Where is Q? This is the question that I have been asking ever since I finished reading Jump (otherwise known as Twinmaker). I had so many feelings at the end of Jump, but ultimately it boiled down Q – where is she, what is she, and will she help or destroy the world? Well… you will need to read Crash to see if this question is answered :)The events at the end of Jump left the world, and Clair, in a spin. The world in in turmoil: d-mat is broken. This does not only mean that people are unable to take quick holidays across the world, but it ground society to a halt due to their dependency on this form of transportation. Society in general does not know how to function without this technology, but more importantly, people are unable to access medical attention; they are unable to leave wherever they were when d-mat broke down. The whole world is on verge of breakdown, and it is Clair’s fault. She broke d-mat, but she doesn’t know how to fix it. The only hope of restoring it is Q – but she is nowhere to be found. Can Clair find her? Can Clair make her trust her again? Can Clair trust Q?On the run from the Dupes who are after her, from society who blames her for the world’s problems, and from her friends who seem to have abandoned her, Clair makes some uneasy alliances. Clair needs to find Q – to find her friend, to apologise, and to help restore the world back to the way it was – but these alliances may just destroy Q once Clair finds her.Through Crash, Clair certainly went on a journey. She made some good decisions, she made some bad ones, she trusted those she could, and those she couldn’t. She varied between not wanting to be a leader, and being the only person who could lead. We also see Clair come to realise the consequences of her actions. Not only for herself and her friends, but for the general population. Clair has turned the world upside down – and where she goes from here will also have dire consequences. And as she starts to realise this, she starts to see that she cannot make decisions based on her own personal wants and needs.Clair either trusted too easily, or not enough – this was her in Jump, and also in Crash. And while I do find that somewhat annoying in a character, it is clear that this is one of Clair’s personal development storylines. I don’t mind character traits that annoy me if the character develops as the storyline continues, and it seems that Clair is doing that. She is certainly developing in regards to her selfishness – she is starting to be able to look beyond her own desires.Clair has been thrown into a world of confusion, there are people who want to use her to find Q, to use her a spokesperson, to follow or to ridicule her. She is uncertain who she can trust, she is uncertain why this has all fallen to her, she does not understand why every move she makes is being watched and scrutinised by everyone via Air… all that she knows is that she does not know where Q is, and the only person she can trust is Jesse.The relationship between Clair and Jesse is very interesting – Clair needs and wants Jesse, but is their relationship doomed from the start? Clair wants to restore the technology that her world is so reliant on, however Jesse believes, and wants, the world to adapt to the abstainer lifestyle. Will their personal beliefs regarding society’s need and use of technology ultimately drive them apart?Crash once again exemplifies dependency on technology. And with this, raising many current ethical questions. The dependency and consequences of social media once again is a strong focus. As Air is still working, this is a driving factor of information sharing, tracking and hijacking throughout the storyline. It shows the usefulness of technology, but also the pitfalls. And although this is a sci-fi setting, the underlying messages and questions are relevant in today’s society. Even though not available in the world we know today, the use of fabbers and d-mat also raises some very important questions regarding our current view-point of instant gratification and self-entitlement.Crash does take a few twists and turns along the way, especially towards the end of the book. Like it’s processor, Crash is full of action in an well-developed, technology dependant world, but it was really the ending that won me over. I am very much looking forward to Fall (Twinmaker #3). I cannot wait to see where Clair will end up, and what exactly will happen to this world. Who will fall? What will fall?So, what happened to Q? Well, let me say this, Sean certainly leaves you hanging… but if you think that is bad, just wait until you get to that cliff-hanger ending!

I received an ARC of this book. Crash is due out November 2014We pick up basically straight off the where the first book left off. Claire and Jesse are on the run still and they have picked up a couple of PK's (Peace Keepers) as companions. Being hailed as the "Girl Who Broke D-Mat" is racking Claire as she wants it fixed. People are stranded around the world, they can't get to hospitals or they are trapped in unusual places. Claire's friends are not talking to her and there are different groups of people who are after her. What Clarie needs is a safe place to hide so she can figure out what is next. Claire and her companions are on a mission to find Q and to find out who keeps targeting her. They team up with RADICAL and WHOLE (Two opposite groups) and it is a race to find out the information she needs to fix the world before it ends.I really liked reading this series. There are some slow parts where I skimmed a few passages, but those are few and far between. The world the author has created can be a little low on background detail of the world itself. Sometimes it feels like it is set in the far future and then it's like it's now, except with teleportation. These nit picks are tiny though, the story kept me reading right to the end and I know want to find out in the conclusion. The ending was so fabulous that you really didn't know how it was going to end. I would recommend reading this series and if you find it hard going, keep at it! The characters develop and the storyline grows. A fantastic tale by a brilliant author.

Not the ending to this book that I was expecting! I'm super interested to see where it goes in the next book. Before knowing that there was a book after this, I was devastated at the end when everyone ended up dead, and almost ended up in tears. I'm excited to see what happens and how this all gets fixed.

What a riveting adventure!

Non-stop, fast-paced, had me at page 1!

It was good but not as good as the first one.

Absolutely trilling

Just as action-packed as its predecessor Crash (published outside of Australia as Crashland,) opens directly where the events of Jump (or Twinmaker) left off. Clair has betrayed her friend Q (an AI with some very humanlike qualities,) and the D-Mat network (a teleportation operation system, similar to what was used on Star Trek) is broken, leaving many people around the world stranded. A number of groups with conflicting philosophies want to work with Clair, and the peacekeepers want to use her to track down Q who may hold the key to fixing the d-mat network. There are a number of dupes who want her killed. And then, of course, there is Clair's budding relationship with abstainer Jesse. But who can Clair really trust?As I said, this one is just as action-packed as the first book in the series. The narrative is a little confusing at times as Clair tries to navigate her way safely through this new world and attempts to track down Q. The answer to who is responsible for most of the drama is a surprising, though fitting, one. Clair is a resourceful heroine, but she also has many humanlike qualities that give the character a real sense of balance. I would have liked to have seen a bit more of Jesse--as a character who has abstained from the technology in the book, he felt to me as a reader to be a bit of a link between the real world and the futuristic world that is depicted in the series. Or maybe that's just me. One element of the book that absolutely deserves more discussion is Q. Q is six day old Artificial Intelligence with some very humanlike qualities--Q has a gender and an emotional range that causes her to spend most of the novel sulking and refusing to answer Clair's repeated calls for help. As one of the characters notes about Q, she is smarter than the characters in the book, but what keeps her at their level is her inexperience. (She is, after all, just six days old.) And Q is, of course, the real reason why so many groups are interested in Clair. Whoever can reach out to Q--or possibly control her--is the person who holds all the power. Crash was an enjoyable read and I highly recommend this series to anyone who is looking for a Sci-fi book with young, resourceful and realistic characters, and a read that does not rely on the usual YA/mass market tropes. Highly recommended.This review also appears on my blog, Kathryn's Inbox.

http://abooktopia.weebly.com Crashland is a fantastic tale that raises philosophical questions about right and wrong, and what is humane. - Abooktopia Where is Q? What is she? And most importantly, where does she stand? That’s what everyone wants to know. A question, that Clair does not have an answer to. D-mat is broken, and society does not know how to survive without it. Unable to leave or travel, people are unable to access hospitals halfway across the world. The world is in turmoil, and it’s all Clair’s fault. Hailed as the girl who broke d-mat, her only hopes of fixing the world, is through Q. Yet somehow Q has managed to stay under the radar. She can’t be found unless she wants to be found. With dupes now after Clair, and society blaming her for the world’s chaos, Clair is desperate to survive and make it out through all of this.Crashland: Crash, once again embodies the impacts and dependency of technology. Whilst at the same time bringing fourth questions battling against morals and beliefs. Right and wrong. Why should someone get to choose who lives and who dies? Why should someone have the authority to decide whom to bring back from the dead? This novel is filled with action along with cunning twists and turns that will keep you reading on.The relationship between Clair and Jesse is once again very interesting and peculiar. Clair wants to restore d-mat, whilst Jesse wants the world to adapt to the abstainer lifestyle. Beliefs and morals battling against another. Clair grew as character as she observed herself during her voyage to fix the world, and slowly began to lean from her mistakes.The ending truly won me over with its cleverness, and well thought out ideas. I am exhilarated to begin Hollowgirl: Fall, and cannot wait to see where Clair will stand, and what will happen next. The characters overall were well developed and grew together as the storyline grew. ***I received a copy of this book in return for an honest and unbiased review***

Huge thank you to the publisher for letting me read an advanced copy of this. I'm writing this honest review to say thank you!MY GOD THAT ENDING. Williams is EVIL with his endings. I need the next book NOW (which is pretty much how I felt at the end of Twinmaker.So this book picks up where the first book left off and you are THROWN into the mix and the pace does NOT slow down at all. This is good because it makes you want to plow through the book and keeps you on the edge of your seat... but it didn't work for me ALL the time because sometimes it felt that things were going a little TOO fast. I got confused and found myself having to backtrack a bit. I even had to go back and re-read the end of Twinmaker. So I would have liked a few more moments to breathe. Overall this was excellent. I loved the philosophical arguments, the mix of characters, and the jumps all around the world. I LOVE the names that Williams uses in these books too. Some are so refreshingly original and clever and some are just so normal that they fit. I really loved the new characters (especially the twins) and how we got to know some characters better. I would have liked a little more romance between Clair and Jesse. There were some moments that had so much potential and they would kiss and... fade out. Or Jesse would fall asleep. I know this isn't a romance-heavy novel, but I WANTED MORE THEY ARE SO SWEET TOGETHER.And Q. Q. Q. Q. DAMN. I didn't see that coming. Again. I love that I don't see this stuff coming.Next book nowwwwwwwwwww please!

I am a massive fan of the Twinmaker series and when I first got my hands on a copy of this book (ARC) I immediately cancelled all plans to dive straight into it.Crash is a bit of a slower start than the first book in the series, with quite a frustrating sequence of chases in the initial half. But then the truly unseen whopper of an ending hit me like a tidal wave in the chest and had me scrambling for breath by the end. The end was completely unexpected and it is when you reach this final third of Crashland that you suddenly understand the way the first part of the book has been set out and why you must read it again, immediately, so you can see for yourself where those clues were hidden.The relationships in this book reach a new level of complexity with Q being a much more flawed character than I ever thought she would be, so much so that I am unsure whether she will be able to gain back my trust in the third installment of this series. Her unpredictability is shown beautifully by Williams.I feel sorry for Clair in this book, she tries so hard. In a way, this series is all about the mistakes good people make, and what happens when you can't escape the consequences of those mistakes.For those of you who like the first book, I think if you persevere with this one til the end you will be as shocked as I was, and just as keen to find out what happens next.

I am a massive fan of the Twinmaker series and when I first got my hands on a copy of this book (ARC) I immediately cancelled all plans to dive straight into it.Crash is a bit of a slower start than the first book in the series, with quite a frustrating sequence of chases in the initial half. But then the truly unseen whopper of an ending hit me like a tidal wave in the chest and had me scrambling for breath by the end. The end was completely unexpected and it is when you reach this final third of Crashland that you suddenly understand the way the first part of the book has been set out and why you must read it again, immediately, so you can see for yourself where those clues were hidden.The relationships in this book reach a new level of complexity with Q being a much more flawed character than I ever thought she would be, so much so that I am unsure whether she will be able to gain back my trust in the third installment of this series. Her unpredictability is shown beautifully by Williams.I feel sorry for Clair in this book, she tries so hard. In a way, this series is all about the mistakes good people make, and what happens when you can't escape the consequences of those mistakes.For those of you who like the first book, I think if you persevere with this one til the end you will be as shocked as I was, and just as keen to find out what happens next.

After loving reading 'Twinmaker'/ 'Jump', the first book in the trilogy, I've been hanging out for the next book in the instalment. In this book, the world of 'Jump' is changed and is overrun by duplicates. Again I enjoyed the ideas. Perhaps at the beginning it was a bit more technical, however later on we got to see more of the characters, their interactions, their development - and the competing factions with their different ideas about d-mat. Is technology like d-mat bad, or good, or neither? Or both? What is worse? A world where people struggle for resources, or a world where everything might be interpreted as a recreated copy? I loved the twist, I loved the ending which basically sent chills across my skin whilst I read it at midnight. And the following day, I re-read the ending just to be sure. I can't wait till the third book is out and spent most of the following day wondering what could I possibly do to make the third book come out faster! Sean Williams, you are so cruel to your readers!