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    The Hero and The Hacktivist
    The Hero and The Hacktivist
    The Hero and The Hacktivist
    Audiobook7 hours

    The Hero and The Hacktivist

    Written by Pippa Grant

    Narrated by Maxine Mitchell and Teddy Hamilton

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    About this audiobook

    For anyone who's ever been on the receiving end of an unsolicited dick pic . . .

    He has the muscles of Adonis, an ego bigger than the sun, and a very clear desire to get back in my pants. Which would be fantastic if he weren't a SEAL and I wasn't a criminal.

    Although, I prefer the term avenger. I'm a hacktivist, cleaning up the cesspool of cyberspace one scam artist and troll at a time, and I sometimes bend a few rules to get justice done.

    He's a military man with abs of glory, sworn to uphold the letter of the law no matter its shortcomings. And if he'd known who-or what-I was, I doubt he would've banged me at my best friend's wedding reception. Or come back for more.

    Which is why he's now the only thing standing between me and one very pissed off internet troll who's figured out where I live. I'm pretty sure he'll get me out of this alive-and quite satisfied, thank you very much-but I'm also pretty sure this mission will end with me in handcuffs.

    And not the good kind of handcuffs.

    Contains mature themes.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 26, 2019
    ISBN9781630158149
    The Hero and The Hacktivist
    Author

    Pippa Grant

    Pippa Grant is a USA Today bestselling author who writes romantic comedies that will make tears run down your leg. When she’s not reading, writing, or sleeping, she’s being crowned employee of the month as a stay-at-home mom and housewife trying to prepare her adorable demon spawn to be productive members of society, all the while fantasizing about long walks on the beach with hot chocolate chip cookies.

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    • 4/5
      I liked the humor in this one. I wasn't feeling the couple connection though. Good story overall.
    • 4/5
      A little weirded out by all the sex/penis/vagina euphemisms, but a pretty cute book besides that.
    • 5/5
      5 stars.








    • 5/5
      I laughed so hard throughout this book. The humor is very reminiscent of my family. Loved it.
    • 5/5
      I love it. It was the best one in this series. Funny, ridiculous, sweet. It was everything!
    • 2/5
      Ooookay. There's a lot to unpack here.

      First of all, Pippa Grant, just in general, is ALWAYS more crude than I really care for, her writing style too hyper, and her characters and plot lines often just way too over-the-top for the suspension of disbelief to be possible.

      And this book was like normal Pippa Grant, but on speed.

      Sidebar, some of the one star Amazon reviews of this book are hysterical. One of them said, "This story is an absolute manic episode typed out on paper, fueled by caffeine and desperation, and a false sense of grandiosity." And honestly, that is the perfect description.

      But in spite of all of this, I read every book she writes. Why?! Because she swings for the fence so hard and so many times that she DOES hit a lot of home runs....you just have to forgive all the foul balls in the meantime.

      Her books often read like "experiments"....or first drafts that are just never gone back over with a critical eye. You know how like, in college or whatever, when they're teaching you about brainstorming, and you're supposed to just write down EVERY thought or idea, no matter how stupid, and completely shut off, for the moment, the part of your brain that would normally slow down the process by constantly saying, "Well THAT idea is shyte, and here's why...." And how, after the brainstorming is done, you're supposed to go back LATER and get analytical about it, and throw out all the absolute rubbish?

      Yeah. Pippa (or her editors) don't do that last step near enough. AND THEY DIDN'T DO IT AT ALL, with this book.

      And here's the thing (back to my love/hate/love relationship with her books) if you see Pippa herself in videos, and get a bit of a taste for her real personality, it all starts to make sense, and even just feel free-wheeling and charming, because after that you can sense how much fun SHE was having while writing, and just letting all of her creative crazy out on paper. It really makes you (or, at least, me....it really makes ME) more forgiving of the jr. high fever dreams that her books can feel like at times.

      But this one---OOF.

      This book was already challenged by the fact that Eloise's behavior in the prior books in the series was extremely off-putting already. But we're used to that, as readers, yeah? Especially with male characters that were just obnoxious playboys as side characters in previous books, but when you get to THEIR book you find out WHY they acted that way....or that underneath that behavior, there was really so much more to them. Or whatever.

      And Pippa allllllmoooost accomplishes that with Eloise. But....again....there was just a lack of critical editing. Because Eloise came barreling right out the gate being the compulsive, obnoxious, inappropriate little leg-humper that we already knew and...hated. BUT THEN! Then! Then Pippa tried to play it off like, oh, the whole thing was really just an act! She was just...um....oh, I don't know, something about keeping people at arm's length or something. Not letting them see the real her.

      And even though her behavior from page one had already contradicted that particular spin, I was still ready to go along with it. For the sake of the story, you know. But then....then Pippa just didn't keep it straight. For the rest of the book she'd go back and forth between Eloise saying or doing absolutely bonkers things just in order to erect barriers between her (and her secrets) and other people.....and then Eloise being an insane horndog just because she was, genuinely, an insane horndog. The narrative just never stayed consistent.

      For me, her character WAS ultimately saved by the fact that we WERE consistently shown that Eloise did have a really soft, tender side....and this was probably best on display in her thoughts about and interactions with her brother, who there really should have been more of.

      And the "romance" was saved for me by the fact that she brought a sense of chaos to Rhett's life that he needed and craved like an adrenaline shot, since he wasn't currently living his best Navy Seal life. I did really like that, and the book would have been all the better for it if Pippa had just STOPPED MAKING UP JUVENILE EUPHEMISMS FOR BODY PARTS for one gosh darn second, and gotten a little bit serious about Rhett's character. It all would have worked a lot better if it had been more of a "wounded hero who needs saving" type story line, and if Eloise was more of a typical Manic Pixie Dream Girl, and not just a chronic sex offender.

      (because seriously, not to get all tedious over a romcom or whatever, but if it had been a male character doing the things she was doing, to female characters, it would have been nothing short of sexual harassment and assault).

      AAAAAnyway. As you can tell this book got under my skin. I wanted to like it SO MUCH. I WANT to like Pippa as a writer....SO MUCH. But man, she's GOT to dial it down from 125%, or she's got to find some editors who will do it for her...or SOMETHING.