Hex

by Rhiannon Lassiter

Book Overview

In the 24th century, London towers five miles into the sky, and the citizens of its upper levels are safe from the gangs below. Feared more than gangs are Hexes, humans with a mutant gene that allows them to interact with computers that are labeled as security threats. Raven, a 15-year-old Hex with powerful mental abilities, and her brother search for their sister who has been taken to a top-secret government laboratory.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743422112
• ISBN13: 9780743422116
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Simon Pulse
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

Great for all ages

Despite seeing this book recomended for ages 8-12, I as a 15 year old couldn't put this book down, and the same goes for the sequel. Granted it is shorter and a lot easier to read as other great books, such as Lord of the Rings, but it is truly a good book, and worth the small money and time.

If only we could all use computers so easily

Raven is an illegal being - a person who can access computer systems through the interface of her own mind. The genetic experiments of the twenty-first century led to a genetic mutation where certain people become a human computer. These people are known as a Hex. Hex's are dangerous, and are executed for no other reason than they are Hex. Somewhere in the streets of London Raven and her brother Wraith are looking for the missing member of their family - their sister Rachael. Could she be a Hex too?This book is an awesome combination of science fiction and action adventure. In the future a new type of human has evolved, one that can surf the net and hack into computers with nothing more than a computer terminal and thier own minds. In many ways this book is like the Matrix meets Dark Angel. Raven is a strong character that can leave you gasping as she ruthlessly uses everything at her disposal to stay alive and get what she needs. All of that strength will be needed when she breaks into the organisation that wants to see her dead.Although this book shows a very bleak future, there is hope that the following books in the series will see Raven and her family show the world what really happens to children and teenagers who are accussed of being a Hex. A gripping novel in a series that should not be missed.

WOW!!!

This book was wonderful! It's very similer to Philip Pullman's The Dark Materials only not so sad. Very believeable and not at all faky. The main character blows off the mushy girl herione tactic with the whole 'I have to save the whole world by myself' attitude that has helped make girls known as Super-Sexy Twitterbrains.Raven is definetly someone I would want around.She is one tuff chic, simply trying to survive in a world were her brains aren't welcome. Litterly. Raven has mutant genes that enable her to be perfectly in tune with any computer, better than the best hacker, making her illegal, and very dangerous. She's helping her brother find their sister, Rachel, and that means going to the place of certain death, the CPS's lab. The CPS had the legal right to dispose of anyone suspected of having the Hex gene. That means if she get's caught, that's the end. On the way she makes some friends and tons of enemies. The end hinted at some romance in the new book, Hex:Shadows. That's something I'm definetly getting as soon as it comes out!

why the best

this must be the best book there is in the entire universe!it tells of a mysterious character named raven, and her and her companions fight aginst the EF-the european federation. raven is an enigma,even to her brother wraith.she is extremely independent and is always clothed in black.to the EF she becomes to be considered as the most dangerous criminal to ever live, because she is a a hex.in the world that she grows up in hexes are called mutants so the EF attempt a genocide of the hexes.raven must fight or her survival as she and wraith arrive in london to find their lost sister,rachel.wraith and raven experience different things so their personalities are different,wraith taking all responsibilities and raven depending on no one.together they find a mystery that they are impelled to discover and reveal digusting conspiracy within the governments.i like HEX because you are permitted to enter an almost completely different world to your own with ingenious inventions.the continents are the same so therefore the book may be assimilating what this world may be like in the time that HEX is set-2367.each character has their own wildly dissimilar personality and appearance and crams your imagination with amazing pictures,scenes and people.the ending is like the end of the world but armed with the knowledge of the existence of the next book in the series,life will carry on.

Excellent...

In the late twenty first century a gene was created that enabled human beings to connect directly with computers, to access information in systems all over the world. Now, three hundred years later, the Hexes are being hunted down by the government and systematically exterminated. Raven is one such Hex. Together with her brother Wraith, she has come to London to seek her sister Rachel, who may or may not be a Hex herself. Along with street kid Kez and Ali, a spoilt, rich Hex, Wraith and Raven hunt for clues to Rachel's whereabouts - a search that will lead them to a CPS laboratory, built for the purpose of research into the Hex gene and for testing and exterminating the Hexes themselves.The first instalment in a trilogy, Hex is a compelling mix of action and sci-fi that will keep you reading until the very end. The pace is incredible, the action is non-stop and the atmosphere is so convincing that you can really imagine travelling through twenty fourth century London. The characters, particularly Raven herself, are fascinating and memorable and really bring this futuristic world to life. I can't wait to read the remaining books - Hex: Shadows and Hex: Ghosts - in the trilogy. Definitely recommend to all teen sci-fi fans.