Codebreaker

SO many ARCs and just not enough time. Here's Jay Martel "Codebreaker."

["Mia Hayes has peaceful plans for the summer—find a part-time job at a coffee shop and work on her application for Harvard. Those plans are shattered one night when government agents arrive unannounced at her home seeking something they believe her father has taken. When the dust settles, her mother is dead and her father is gone, a fugitive on the run.

Three weeks later, and still reeling from her father’s betrayal, Mia spends her seventeenth birthday at a protest in the heart of D.C., where she meets Logan, a rebellious and charming hacker. Just as she’s enjoying her first happy moment since the night her world exploded, a voicemail from her father arrives to upend everything she believed about her family, her past, and what really happened that night three weeks ago. Even more, the voicemail hides another encoded message inside which, once Mia solves it, sets her and Logan off on a mission from her sleepy suburb straight into the heart of the federal government.

With the same agents now hot on their trail, Mia and Logan must navigate their way through American history’s most iconic sites and uncover its most well-hidden secrets to reveal the truth about her family and stop a deadly attack."]

Da Vinci Code meets National Treasure meets Indiana Jones meets Only Murders in the Building meets Murdle. So a lot of puzzles and history and government agents and secrets and murder. And puzzles. 

Soooooo many puzzles This book gave you moments where you could pause your book, take out a notebook, and solve the ciphers right alongside Mia. It was interesting as hell. I went from solving cyphers to taking notes about the multiple Lincoln assassination conspiracies. 

Also, throughout this book, Mia's parents talk about the different countries they got to and how the people there have power, how the people there want change, about how the people there are going to make it happen. It's all very thrilling, all very rooted in history, and all very hopeful (in a world of government idiots, unfairness on soooo many levels, and utter hopelessness).

Trigger Warnings: gun violence, death, parental death, grief, and more.

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