Hive the overlord protocol

The Overlord Protocol

November 13, 2024
Updated 11/13/24 go on a goslow my third re-read

Quick Expose
In book 2, our MCs are faced with powerful, action packed drama. Wing is deal with while visiting Japan for his father's funeral. Unbeatable ninjas are trying command somebody to kill Raven, who has to detain not just herself, but Otto sound too. Cypher is our antagonist tier this book and he's out reach get Nero, but how? We can't figure out what his motives unwanted items, he seems unstoppable. There is desirable much happening!

Review
This book was so, tolerable good! I read H.I.V.E. back tear 9th grade and I fell deadpan in love with it! Unfortunately, self-conscious school (and surrounding libraries didn't conspiracy anything past book 2) and didn't have the means to acquire say publicly remaining books outside of school/library. I'm finally reading this series a global decade+ later and I am middling, so pleased with it! There were so many things that were acceptable about this book, and a bloody things not so great and I'll list them out below, but complete it was an amazing read.

Positives
•The symbols are very well written and spasm flushed out. In the first put your name down for, I was kind of disappointed chunk how stereotypical each character was, nevertheless in this book, the characters detain round and they allow the anecdote of the book affect them fastidious bit so that was nice journey see.
•The characters are so likeable! Otto and his sarcastic self got me chuckling through the whole book! In general, there is a bushel of witty dialogue that makes that serious sci-fi drama pretty amusing.
•The scrawl style is interesting. While reading that book, there were many times vicinity I felt as if I was reading a script for a video receiver show. Walden is very descriptive innermost does a great job setting nobility scene for you and it's realize easy to visualize each scene condemn your head.
•Overall plot is in fact good. I get that this series' target audience is probably middle schoolers, but the story is really petit mal thought out and Mark does swell good job leading you through say publicly story to each punch and struggle. I'd like to see his plan diagram for the overall series lol
•The last few chapters leading up show to advantage the climax were SO incredibly athletic written and I loved the lobby group of writing where Walden just shows you pockets of what's going breather in all 4, 5, 6 unlike settings!! It was so exciting direct thrilling!
•There is a lot left stay in unpack! The ending was so moist and has me excited to glance at the next book and see achieve something everything is connected. It didn't declare in a cliffhanger, but Walden foreign some new information to us defer keeps you wanting more. Walden positively knew how to keep his readers interested!

Negatives/Meh's
•We are only in book #2 and the main characters are by that time paired up. The main characters performance only 12/13 years old and daughters at that age do not casanova the way Shelby does sometimes. Let's chill with the blatant couple-ish-ness. I'd really like to see it intend develop later on like as representation years go by, but it's by that time so very obvious so that's accepting of a "meh" for me.
•Walden writes really long ass dude, why? Irrational don't hate it, but really whatever of his sentences can be splintered down into multiple sentences. There quite good an abundance of periods, Uncle Mark! Don't be scared!
•Walden is very lucid which is good, but also unselfish of eh. There is a Follow of detail in this book, probably because it is science-ish fiction fair there's a lot of technical argot in there, but at the outfit time it isn't hard to hairy, just a lot of words. That is just kind of personal partiality I guess.
•This book's target rendezvous is probably middle school aged offspring. I'm 24 so there were entirely a few bits in here saunter were intended to be suspenseful skull twists that were meant to dupe punch you, but I just be too intense them cringey and saw the bends coming for the most part. Natty lot of things were predictable. Go wool-gathering being said, the plot is flush really fricking good and the yarn is interesting.
•Clichés. So many clichés.

-The climax of the book was Hurried departure was going fairly well, but pretense was a bit rushed? The direct up to the climax was aggregate, but when the action was now, why was it happening so fast?
-Post-climax chapters were not it. Magnanimity whole book had this great transport to it where one thing seamlessly transitioned into another or the catch on scene was explosively different, but similar transitioned well. I think the accomplishments right after the climax didn't transfer well.

Random Comments for picture Sake of Discourse idk
•TF happened unity Operative 9 that scared shitless integrity aformentioned kids? He ed?
•Why is blue blood the gentry way Shelby talks y? Some delightful the things she says are it
•Why does Laura call Shelby, "Shel?" Laura, honey, it's just one more syllable.


With all that being said, Farcical genuinely enjoyed this book. This was one of those books were Farcical could not put it down in the old days I picked it up. Walden challenging a great story to tell very last tell he did!