Review – Wired by Julie Garwood

Wired by Julie Garwood
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Publication Date: July 4, 2017
Date Read: June 10, 2017
Length:  320 pages
Source: First to Read
★★☆☆☆

A beautiful computer hacker and a bad-boy FBI agent must collaborate—in more ways than one—in the sexy, suspenseful new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood.

When Allison Trent isn’t working on her college degree, she models on the side. But behind her gorgeous face is a brilliant mind for computers, and her real love is writing—and hacking—code.

Hotshot FBI agent Liam Scott needs the skills of a top-notch hacker to find out who in his department has been leaking classified intel. He finds the perfect candidate in Allison. Only there’s one problem—she wants nothing to do with his job.

What Liam doesn’t know is that Allison is hiding secrets that she doesn’t want the FBI to uncover. But Liam will do nearly anything to persuade her to join his team, even break a few rules, if that’s what it takes. A temptation that could put his job—and both of their futures—on the line…

Amazon | BAM! | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound | Kobo

I really didn’t get a whole lot out of this book.  Julie Garwood is an author that I have been wanting to read for ages so when I saw this book offed on First to Read, I jumped at the chance to read it.  I ended up being completely underwhelmed by the story.  I had no trouble getting through the book but there was never a moment where I couldn’t wait to see what was going to happen next.  I just never really got hooked by the story and in the end it was really pretty forgettable.

Allison is the focus of this story.  She is an incredibly smart programmer finishing up her last year of college.  She is also a model because of course she has to be drop dead gorgeous.  She was raised by her aunt and uncle along with her sister after her parents died.  She didn’t get a lot of support growing up and her family make her life very difficult.

Liam is an FBI agent.  He travels all over the world cleaning up problems and he thinks that Allison can help him clean up his current problem.  There is a computer leak in the government and he wants her to help him find it.  He is very protective of Allison since she is his asset and seems to know just what to say and do when things go wrong.

I really didn’t have a whole lot of feelings for any of the characters.  Liam would be missing for big sections of the book and really felt like a stereotype when he was in the story.  He is the super cool FBI guy there to save the day but we really don’t get to know a whole lot about him.  Allison was way too perfect and her character just never really felt completely developed.  I never felt that wow factor between them that I look for in a romance.

I think that this book probably had too much going on.  If Liam and Allison could have focused on the FBI case, that would have probably been enough.  In addition to that, Allison’s family has went absolutely crazy and her former roommate is causing all kinds of problems.  The funny thing is that everyone in this book seems to screw up and then blame Allison for it.  Everything in the world is probably Allison’s fault.

This story is told from both Allison’s and Liam’s points of view.  It was strange though because the points of view would just switch from paragraph to paragraph without any notice.  You would be learning what Allison thought about something and then suddenly you are in Liam’s head.  I found that this style didn’t work out very well for me and I would keep looking back to see which point of view had just read.  It just all seemed very odd to me.

I wouldn’t recommend this book to others.  It is readable and I am sure that some readers will enjoy it more than I did.  I just found it to be a lackluster overall story.  I would like to read some of Julie Garwood’s earlier works at some point.

I received an advance reader edition of this book from Berkley Publishing Group via First to Read.

About the Author

Julie Garwood is among the most critically acclaimed—and popular—romance authors around, with nearly forty million copies of her books in print. She is the author of numerous bestsellers, including Fast Track, Hotshot, Sweet Talk, The Ideal Man, Sizzle, Fire and Ice, Shadow Music, Shadow Dance, and Slow Burn. She lives near Kansas City.

Author Links: Website | Goodreads | Facebook | Twitter

Related Posts