Story: 3 stars
Character Development: 4 stars
Prose/Language: 4 stars

"She was sitting in an airport holding a stack of high-grade forged documents, having been stripped of her own legitimate ones by and all-girl pickpocket team."

I'm having a hard time rating this book. The conspiracy theories, secret organizations, spy stuff with car chases, and plant computers .... it was a lot of fun to read! But the story felt either too big or too small. It could have been Ludlum-like or Stephenson-esque. Not a mix of the two, which is what the reader got. I would like to have had more. Either more details around the bigger story told faster or more character development beyond the final scene. I'm not sure which way to go.

It's an interesting book; one that tells an emotional story rather than a physical one. The ending is really about the characters - Leila, Leo, and Mark - and the moral compass decisions they make. All this just happens to play out while an evil cabal tries to takeover the world. Not really sure what the author means by linking such dire global catastrophe to the emotional maturity of millennials. I could be reading too much into it.

Or not.