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title: "Encrypted: An Action-Packed Techno-Thriller: From the author of the blockbuster Betrayed series (Robin Hood Hacker Book 1)"
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# Encrypted: An Action-Packed Techno-Thriller: From the author of the blockbuster Betrayed series (Robin Hood Hacker Book 1)

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## Customer Reviews

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    I see Encrypted as the e-book equivalent to the Librarian movies
  

*by C***D on Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2013*

First off, just to let you know: I did enjoy reading Encrypted.  I thought it was a fun "light" story to read.  But I do not think it is a 5-Star thriller as many reviewers have posted, NOR do I think it is as bad as some of the 1-Star reviews either.Yes, some of the happenings and science in this book are over the top and not totally believable, but it is intended to be a thriller, not science fact.  Ronnie & Quirk do indeed have many unbelievable hi-tech gadgets that seem to appear out of nowhere JUST when they need them the most, similar to items from Batman's Utility Belt from the 60's TV show.  Holy Shark Repellant!One thing I found amusing was when Zach was throwing boomerangs in the New York Museum of Art and hitting his opponents and then catching the boomerangs on their return flights.  Just how WIDE are those museum hallways?  And if you hit someone hard enough to knock them down wouldn't the boomerang just drop and not return flawlessly back to the thrower?  And no, Zach was not an expert with the boomerang.  Still, I let it go and accepted that Zach and Ronnie were on a roll and weren't going to be stopped.My biggest complaint is the romance aspect of this thriller. I almost gave up on this story very early on. I thought there was way TOO much cutie-pie/love thing going on (do you think he likes me?  I'll pass a note in 3rd period) between Ronnie & Zach (who were acting like a couple of love-sick teenagers (13-15 years old)).  I could almost hear Donny Osmond singing "Puppy Love" in the background.  For an action-packed techno thriller there is a large amount of romance & flirting involved (and constant checking out of bodies and drooling over hunks/chicks).  But with bullets flying around, hundreds of people dying (Black Death, gunshots, stabbings, and so on), missiles being launched, explosions, and all that, the cute flirting and romance seemed out of place.  I was not sure if I was reading a Romance novel with a touch of action.....OR....an action thriller with a bit of romance to it.  Instead of touting this book as an Action-Packed-Techno-Thriller, it should have been listed as a ROMANCE suspense/thriller.  Somehow this never seems to be a problem with action thrillers by Matt Reilly, Jeremy Robinson, Jonathan Maberry, Jon Land, James Rollins, or Michael Stephen Fuchs.The action/thriller writers listed above barrage their readers with tons of action RIGHT off the bat.  They lure you in with the action, hi-tech end-of-the world thrills, and then maybe later on introduce a romantic angle (but usually very low key).  At about the 15-30% mark of Encrypted I almost stopped reading, it was just so darn SUGAR SWEET (oh Ronnie, oh Zach.........).  Hundreds of people are dying of the Black Death and Mr. Super FBI Agent is going ga-ga over a woman he has never met.I had just recently read MoonRush by McCray and Ben Hopkin.  An action thriller set in the future that was fun to read (and I wrote a 4-star review).  It was written in the same vein as the movie "A-Team" (serious, but fun).  Jarod (leader of the Rogues) is a hound dog who would would chase any woman with a pulse, but he didn't drool over women WHILE he was fighting for his life or the lives of his crew.  He took care of business first.  But in Encrypted, McCray really drives home the point that Ronnie is hot for Zach (and vice versa) and that Quirk is hot for the pilot.  Over and over again we see the characters: Drool-shoot-drool-dodge missiles-check out his/her/his rear end/abs or whatever-shoot some more-drool and so on. What am I 13?To me it is not fair to Carolyn McCray to compare Encrypted or any of her other stories to novels written by Dan Brown, or any of the other authors I listed above.  Dan Brown set the bar high for religious thrillers.  You could tell he puts in tons of research in his stories.  For action thrillers check out: Ice Station,Pulse (A Jack Sigler Thriller),Patient Zero,Pandora's Temple,The Judas Strain: A Sigma Force Novel, and D-Boys by the authors I mentioned above.  Check out those novels and then you will see why I cannot give a 5 or even a 4-star review to Encrypted.  Encrypted is an okay and fun read, but it is not in the same class of novels as those already titles I already mentioned.  Think of it like this: I enjoy watching the Indiana Jones movies.  Caught all 4 of them in the theaters when they came out.  Those movies are big league and cost millions to produce.  But, I also enjoy watching the low budget made-for-TV Librarian movies starring Noah Wyle: THE LIBRARIAN TRILOGY - 3 DVD Box Set: QUEST FOR THE SPEAR / RETURN TO KING SOLOMON'S MINES / THE CURSE OF THE JUDAS CHALICE [NON-USA Format / Import / Region 2 / PAL].  Low cost, corny as heck, but fun to watch.  I see Encrypted as the e-book equivalent to the Librarian movies.  A lower cost/quality book version of the action/thriller titles like The Da Vinci Code or The Judas Strain.Will I read more of McCray books?  Yes.  In fact I already have Havoc and Binary on my Kindle and I just recently ordered:  Got Thrills? A Boxed Set (A McCray Collection) for only $0.99. This set features six novella stories (one of which is the prequel to Encrypted). I figured for less than a buck I can check out several additional titles by McCray. But now I somewhat know what to expect, at least for the Encrypted stories: Romance w/love angst with some action thrown in.P.S.  For other religious themed action/thrillers, read almost any book by James Byron Huggins.  I would highly recommend The Reckoning: A Novel (a Da Vinci type thriller written YEARS before The Da Vinci Code) or Rora.  Unfortunately his books are NOT available in Kindle format yet.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Solid Techno Thriller
  

*by H***Y on Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2020*

Ronnie, the “Robin Hood Hacker” and Special Agent Zach should be bitter enemies; after all, they are on different sides of the law.  However, they are in love with each other.  Together they try to find a vaccine for the Bubonic Plague that has been spread by a religious cult called “The Hidden Hand,” which wants to wipe out the population – except for themselves and their chosen of course.The plot wasn’t original, regarding an organization spreading the plague, but I liked what McCray did with it.  She made the plot seem fresh and exciting.  I liked the characters very much and found them fully developed and interesting.  It was a bit of a stretch that Quirk had a gadget for every occasion, but I was easily able to look past it.  The pacing was good and kept me turning pages until the end.

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    Cotton Candy for the Brain
  

*by P***I on Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2018*

This is a fun fantasy tale that mixes high technology with a story of biowarfare perpetrated by a powerful religious sect of doomsday fanatics. Unlike well written stories of the genre the author reverts to the heroine’s seemingly endless supply of implausible, high tech, Inspector Gadget like weapons and tools to get her out of the various conners the author paints her into. The casual treatment of millions of people literally dying by the hour from a virulent strain Black Plague, with the thought that the heroine could save the world by returning a handful of vines of antiserum to the sole survivor of a plague infected CDC lab is mind numbing. No concluding believable. detail is ever provided of how the plot climax defeats the spread of the super virus is a huge whole that leaves the reader totally empty and unsatisfied. In short this fun piece of fantasy fiction is too implausible to be worth recommending.

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