Heart-Shaped Hack

Tracey Garvis-Graves writes great banter. Unfortunately that's not enough to carry an entire book. The plot of Heart-Shaped Hack is very slow and cliched. Woman falls in love with mysterious yet perfect hacker, has great sex, they get more and more involved and have more great sex, and then finally at the 70% mark, something tragic happens but it's obvious to the reader (if not to the heroine) that there's more going on than she realizes. The heroine is a perfect, selfless woman who runs a food pantry without any social services training, and all of her clients totally love her (seriously, has this woman ever set foot in a food pantry?).

Perhaps Garvis-Graves should try writing a screenplay for a movie whose plot has already been determined. The dialogue between Kate and Ian did make me smile a few times, but they deserved a better story and more fully developed characters.

Eh this book started out on the wrong foot for me. Guy sees girl on TV. Guy hacks into girl's computer to find things out about her and tracks her location at any given time by her credit card purchases. Then when guy admits he has done this to girl, girl doesn't see anything wrong with it and she invites guy into her home anyways. It's a little overdone. I saw the big twist coming from a mile away. It was just sort of boring for me. The only redeeming quality is the banter between the main characters.