Brandon is a seventeen year old high school computer
hacker,
who hacks bank accounts then sells the information. He is
your average looking bad boy, complete with tattoos and
piercings and attitude. With parents so absorbed into
their
careers to even see that their son is shouting for some
sort
of attention, Brandon keeps the persona of living like a
machine, all gears and wires. He has learned not to invest
too much time into friends or relationships, since they
will
most likely be moving soon. That is until Emma comes
along.
Emma is the kind, and stubborn girl who has insisted on
helping Brandon get act together in school and the
principal
off his back. Only Emma looks beyond the tattoos and
piercings to the person that Brandon keeps hidden away
from
everyone.
When a routine cyber hack throws Brandon off his game, and
a
mirror that is moving on its own. Brandon begins to think
that he has lost his mind. Brandon's reflection, also
named
Obran, has a mind of its own and seems to be changing
Brandon for what it to come. Brandon's piercings
disappear,
his black hair dye washes out, and his black goth clothes
are replaced with pastel polo shirts and slacks.
Then Brandon realizes, that the reflection, is wanting to
trade places with him. When he is pulled in through the
mirror, Brandon is dropped into a world that the hacking
world has thought to be a myth. Now Brandon must use his
hacking skills to get himself out of the cyber prison he
finds himself in and back to the real world.
Duplicity is nothing like anything that I have ever read.
Its an originally, page turning, extremely well written
cyber thriller which is told in Brandon's point of view.
There are twists and turns that the reader doesn't see
coming. If this debut is any indication of things to
come,
then I will certainly be looking for more from N.K.
Traver.
A computer-hacking teen. The girl who wants to save him.
And
a rogue mirror reflection that might be the death of them
both.
In private, 17-year-old Brandon hacks bank accounts for
thousands of dollars just for the hell of it. In public,
he
looks like any other tattooed bad boy with a fast car and
devil-may-care attitude. He should know, he’s worked hard
to
maintain that façade. With inattentive parents who move
cities every two years, he’s learned not to get tangled up
in friends and relationships. So he’ll just keep living
like
a machine, all gears and wires.
Then two things shatter his carefully-built image: Emma,
the
kind, preppy girl who insists on looking beneath the
surface
— and the small matter of a mirror reflection that starts
moving by itself. Not only does Brandon’s reflection have
a
mind of its own, but it seems to be grooming him for
something— washing the dye from his hair, yanking out his
piercings, swapping his black shirts for … pastels.
Changes
he can’t explain to his classmates, who think he’s having
an
identity crisis, and certainly not to nosy Emma, who
thinks
this is his backward apology for telling her to get lost.
Then Brandon’s reflection tells him: it thinks it can live
his life better, and it’s preparing to trade places.
And when it pulls Brandon through the looking-glass, not
only will he need all his ill-gotten hacking skills to
escape, but he’ll have to face some hard truths about who
he’s become. Otherwise he’ll be stuck in a digital hell
until he’s old and gray, and Emma and his parents won't
even
know he's gone.
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