Book Review
Enigma Tracer

ENIGMA TRACER by Breakfield and Burkey is a Mystery Thriller suitable for Young Adult readers.

Breakfield and Burkey are a hugely popular and prolific writing duo – authors of the Enigma series of books. So far the main series has 12 books and Enigma Tracer is the first in the Enigma Heirs series. I can’t speak for all the books but I honestly thought this one should be classified as Young Adult techno mystery instead of techno thriller.

Within the manuscript there was just enough backstory so that I was not completely lost but I think if I had started with Enigma series book 1 – The Enigma Factor – and had read the whole series I would have enjoyed it more.

The premise of the story is interesting, a financial whiz kid is also a “black-ops-type” operative who teams up with her high-tech crew to bring a villain to justice. There is a world-class bad-guy that honestly makes my skin crawl, victims that evoke empathy and just enough suggested relationship drama to keep a reader interested. The story has environmental espionage, human trafficking, financial hijinks and character interaction that makes for a quick read. The technology used within the story was interesting, but can I say that the knowing how easy it is for someone to eavesdrop on all of a characters phone conversations just freaked me out LOL. I have too many conversations with my friends, that without context could be construed as threatening or criminal.

The story takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the globe with stops in tourist hotspots as locations for the action and crimes. One thing I thought was really interesting was that at least half of the story takes place on a cruise ship bound for tropical points of call. It was a good plot device and didn’t call for a lot of scene description to slow down the storyline.

I do recommend this book to lovers of YA who might want to delve into the world of techno thrillers or mysteries I give this a 4-star. However I think readers of action thrillers would not find this book their cup of tea and probably will find it to be a 3½-star read. Just let me say from a book designer point of view, the ebook was beautiful and stylistic, but some of the paragraph stylings are lost on readers of ebooks who do not use the standard white background.

Recommend?

I do recommend this book to lovers of YA who might want to delve into the world of techno thrillers or mysteries

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Disclosure of Material Connection: I received a complimentary copy of this book from the author. I was not required to write a positive review. All of the opinions expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255, “Guidelines Concerning the Use of Testimonials and Endorsements in Advertising.”