An interesting techno mystery/thriller set in the future/an alternate present rooted in the #metoo moment. Personally, having firsthand experience with Silicon Valley douchebro culture, I found the story gripping. Bonus cool feature=the chapter titles align with the your reading progress on a Kindle!

This story started off a little slow for me, but quickly gained speed. This is a surprisingly feminist read, and tackles the whole notion of women in tech--why it's hard to be be a coder and find fame and glory.

You can tell the author knows this culture well. (I liked the bit about every company wanting to hire their "Sheryl"). How does one weed out the bad apples when firing them is like, "repainting the barrel but keeping all the rotten fish inside?"

I dug the characters and the twistiness of the plot. The ending seemed a little slammed together, but I was happy to see Lou be a hero, so I was willing to swallow all of the magical solutions she pulls outta her ass at the last minute.

Great cover, and cool title idea (1414 is the melting point of silicon). However, I remain still a little fuzzy on why the people who were "infected" by Fate had actual pustules on their skin and looked so sick. I THINK they were slipped some chemical in a letter, but that explanation came in the midst of many other fast and furious revelations.

I received an ARC of this book courtesy of NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

This was incredibly interesting to start- I enjoyed the concept and the characterisation. However, the middle dragged for me, with the ultimate denouement feeling rushed and unearned. Good but nit one of the greats.

Lou McCarthy is a journalist who has spent her career exposing predators in Silicon Valley. Going after the worst of the worst has cost her just about everything ... her apartment, friends, and any hope for promotion. Her boss has warned her to stay away from the powers that be and the billionaires who will chew her up and spit her out.

She has deliberately gone after two high profile abusers of women publicly. Unfortunately one of the men jumps to his death at a large party for a new undertaking by a 'player' and the other man walks into a hospital, takes out his gun, and shoots himself.

Lou's work is suddenly and violently thrust into the spotlight. Blamed for the deaths, fired from her job, and pursued by vengeful trolls who have already attacked her mother, Lou has only one chance of survival: To find the killer obsessed with her work, and stop them before anyone else dies.

This was just a bit of a slow starter to me, but it was speeding along nicely by the second chapter. Not knowing much about Silicon Valley and what they did .. or represented... was new to me. I eventually found the meaning of the book's title. 1414 (C) is the melting point of silicon which actually doesn't mean much to the story. The author is a long-term journalist who has covered the culture of Silicon Valley. As such, I expected a high level of credibility and I was not disappointed. The melting pot of characters are solidly drawn. The mystery is intriguing, the plot is riveting.

Many thanks to the author / SnafuPublishing / Netgalley for the digital copy of this Technothriller. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.

This was fairly enjoyable. A little bit of a slow burn but I gave it a try and it was OK. I ended liking it as I dwell into the page more and more.. I have read something similar years ago but I think this was more crafted in detail.

Interestingly, I liked all the characters, (that doesn't happen quite often) but I really did. I think that they were well thought out, imperfect, flawed and human which can be more engaging and relatable. Straightforward narrative, the pacing is balanced and the author's writing style is engaging.

I like Lou's personality. Would love to see a sequel to this one. I'd probably love it this book turns into a series.

Cheers to Netgalley and Snafublishing LLC for the ARC.

This was a good story, although I found at times it slowed, but overall I enjoyed it. Lou McCarthy is a reporter for a San Francisco newspaper, she likes to take down techie type men who mistreat women. She publishes a story, without the permission of the editor, only to find out that the document the story was based on was false. Lou is already spending her nights sleeping at the office, publishing the story gets her fired and she's now essentially homeless. She gets an invite to a swanky high tech party where the owner is supposed to reveal an upcoming IPO which would make the company worth billions. Lou has no idea how she got the invite since the article she published was about this company and their CEO. She attends and is witness to a very gruesome death of one of the other owners. This is the beginning of a cat and mouse type of chase, Lou is trying to stay ahead of a group of fanatical followers of a leader of a men's lives matter, who is intent on harassing her and her family members, which consists of her Mom and her Mom's close friend. If the harassment ends in her death, that would work for this group. Meanwhile Lou meets Fate, a woman with an agenda of her own, who enlists Lou to help her investigate the men who are the leaders of tech companies. Lots of action, lots of intrigue and I was kept guessing until the end. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC.

Paul Bradley Carr's 1414°, a technothriller, shows the ugly side of progress and advanced technology that comes down to the Silicon Valley as sexual harassment, maltreatment of women and minorities in the society hide behind the top-notch tech giants. To bring the offenders to justice, a mysterious figure called Fate played like a marionettist, stealthily, adroitly, and indirectly maneuvering events using a powerful algorithm that lead to the demise of companies and CEOs who abused their power to their advantage. Lou McCarthy, a journalist, investigates the mysterious death of two CEOs. Unbeknownst to her, she's also manipulated by Fate to
get involved in the case that endangers not only her life but also her mother's.

I enjoyed this book so much. The fast-paced plot, fascinating characters, and inconceivable twist fastened my attention up to the last pages. I have so many questions in the beginning that the book answered in the end: Why is the title 1414°? Who is Fate? Would Lou be able to get out of this mess to save herself and her mother? Would Fate be successful in destroying Raum? The story is well-written and profound, exposing what could happen if technology is in the hands of the wrong people.

If you love technothriller, this book is for you.

Thank you, Paul Bradley Carr, Snafublishing LLC, and NetGalley for the ARC for an honest review.

1414° is a nonstop thriller. The premise of smart, competent women vs. the male dominated culture in Silicon Valley was satisfying. A journalist, a consultant and a technical genius are three main characters. They are all motivated to solve and/or expose the mystery of recent suicides by prominent men in the tech world. The reader is pulled along as each new development keeps one guessing. The book is well written and provides much food for speculation.

Lou McCarthy, a journalist in Silicon Valley, publishes a story exposing a top Tech mogul of rape. Shortly thereafter, he commits suicide, and Lou is suddenly in the fight of her life. 1414 is a broad story about the misogynistic and predatory actions of tech moguls, and one person’s quest for revenge. The book has a fairly complicated plot with a lot of moving parts, but it’s intelligently written, fast paced, and full of tension. Lots of twists and suspense that’ll keep you flipping the pages. Definitely a little different, and worth a read. I received an ARC of this book from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

1414º was way better than I expected it to be!
IMO.... This was a slow burn political thriller.
I thought was engrossing, entertaining and very well plotted throughout.
Paul has an excellent writing ability and his characters are unforgettable.
Our female characters were very well developed and I enjoyed following them.
The characters who centred it were provided with their own intriguing side-plots and so many twists, turns, suspense and action, you can't help but read this all damn night.
What I loved about this book is the details! This book has many of the components that make a really good story... from the mood and undercurrents to the very clever writing.
The planning for the final outcome was a delight and thrill, for me, to read.

Snafublishing and NetGalley
Thank you for this ebook copy!
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1414 follows journalist, Lou McCarthy, as she tries to topple the titans of the technology community in Silicon Valley. Lou's latest story is about a serial rapist who has been protected by the bro society and his own company's executives. The powers-that-be shut her down and Lou is fired, but on that same day, she is invited to a gala hosted by the rapist's company, which is on the verge of an IPO. The CEO calls her out publicly at the event . While she's cowering in the unwanted limelight, the rapist suddenly plummets to his death, apparently a suicide. Later on that evening, another subject of one of Lou's exposes also dies. Everyone blames Lou for the deaths, and she is soon set upon by a group of angry, vengeful trolls bent on violence.

To save herself, Lou is forced to track down the person she believes is actually guilty of the two deaths. She's aided by an unlikely benefactor, Helen Tyler. Helen is wealthy, and although she joins up with Lou to investigate the two deaths, she also happens to be a top-level consultant to the very Silicon Valley titans that Lou wants to take down. The third party in this feminist triad is a mysterious party known only as Fate. Fate appears to be the mastermind behind the deaths as he/she is the author of sophisticated code that seems to be tormenting the "brociopaths" that control the tech world. But what is Fate's endgame and is Lou just a pawn?

This is Paul Bradley Carr's first novel, but his background as a journalist serves him well. There are so many twists and turns in 1414 that the excitement never lets up. The result is a terrific thriller that combines the Me Too movement, the entitlement of the bro culture that rules Silicon Valley, and the speed with which technology is impacting our lives. I loved it.

My thanks to NetGalley, the publisher, and author for providing me an eARC in exchange for an honest review. 1414 is quite the roller coaster ride.

I ended liking this book more and more as I read on. It didn't start with much promise, but enough intrigue to keep me reading.
Its awful to be set up and betrayal is always terrible. Lou, our hero, knows she is onto something big, but seems to be cut off at every turn. When the internet trolls decide to go after her mother, and strange people show up into the story, something isn't right.
When I finally got to why things were happening the way they did, I had a strong visceral reaction. It rang so very true of how women are treated now, and how its not so different than how we were treated back then.

Good story, good pacing, liked it a lot.

I really liked it, it is a different story in which we enter a world of corruption and technology led by the patriarchy.
Journalist Lou McCarthy has a passion to fight for transparency and truth, which leads her to get in trouble with people of power, but also to find out about the evil plan of a person who wants to destroy the technological empire led by those awful men.
Filled with strong female characters, 1414º is a novel that shows us the other side of the coin in the world of millionaires.
I won't tell you more so as not to spoil you, it's not usually my genre style but it really kept me hooked and intrigued until the end, I highly recommend it!

Not my favorite book. The subject matter left me less than satisfied. The authors’writing was satisfactory but I was happy to complete it.

I really enjoyed this book. The characters were well developed and the plot excellent - full of surprises and suspense! If you love reading mysteries - you will love this one!

Timely. Deviants working at a tech company, a clean-up crew to blackmail or threaten journalists to print retractions, and a rogue journalist that risks all to get the story out. Also, internet trolls that are willing to kill to protect their favorite tech company. Although fiction, it sounds a lot like the local news.

This book has a number of themes - retribution, mystery and, probably most compelling of all, an examination of the financial and moral excesses of megacorporations, in this case Silicone Valley. Lou McCarthy is a disenfranchised journalist who takes it upon herself to take on the Raum Corporation, the richest and most powerful company ever created, because of their almost criminal disregard for the lives of those they trample on their quest for an ever larger share of the information world. As one might suspect, this is far easier said than done. Along the way, Lou teams up with some unlikely allies.
The characterizations of corporations in this book are reminiscent of the muckraking tomes from the early Twentieth Century, highlighting as it does all the ugliness and smarm that is too often found in these megafirms. If I have anything negative to say about the book it is that it is decidedly anti-male. I suppose this is the norm for the current sociopolitical atmosphere but it still disturbed me.
On the whole, 1414° is a good, solid mystery. Some of the scenes may be a bit beyond the realm of belief but that just adds to the fun.

Complicated multi thread plot set in the tech world.

Lou is a total underdog journalist - homeless, unemployed, savvy and seeking justice even when the personal cost is high. She uncovers tech intrigue, a culture of entitlement and victims of sexual violence navigating a simple story of people displaced by economic development.

Well written characters that definitely have room to develop for additional books.

An interesting plot with #metoo undercurrents taking on big tech in San Francisco's Silicon valley. There is some profanity in this fast paced thriller. This was a new author for me and a subject I knew little about.
Lou McCarthy is a journalist at the Bay Area Herald. She has a reputation of uncovering and exposing wrongdoings. She's homeless since Raum One, the world’s most transparent building, replaced her former apartment building. She blindsides her boss by posting a story exposing Raum's chief technology officer, Alex Wu, as a rapist. Now she's also unemployed.
Cryptic circumstances have her attending the grand opening of Raum One. It's rumored that Raum’s CEO, Elmsley Chase, is announcing its IPO. The event is shattered by the very public suicide of Alex Wu. Her reputation is tanked, she's blamed, and now even her family is being harassed and threatened.
Things get worse as Joe Christian also very publicly attempts to kill himself. Lou had previously exposed him of sexual impropriety also.
Helen Tyler was hired by Raum's board to head the crisis-management team. She has a network of contacts and vague history. She orchestrates the harrowing rescue of Lou. They warily team up to find out who is behind the deaths of these prominate men and the connection to Raum.
There are lots of suspects, both inside and outside of Raum, with motives and money in play. The most likely culprit might be the next victim. Only "Fate" holds the answers. The cover-ups, twists and turns in this thriller will keep you guessing. The deceit of the male dominated network in Silicon Valley's tech world is an eye opener. The pace is frentic, the action is nonstop and there are unlikely alliances to expose the truth.
If you enjoy mystery, intrigue and staying up late to finish, read this one. An author I will watch for in the future.
Many thanks to Netgalley, Paul Bradley Carr and Snafublishing for the advance digital copy of "1414". These are my personal thoughts and opinions given voluntarily.

A thriller filled with suspense! I have been reading a few books recently about journalists who find themselves in challenging and tricky situations, but this book wins the prize. Makes you angry too about how so many of those silicon billionaires got away with so much. A great read!
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Did you know that Silicone melts at high temperatures of around 1414 degrees?? I LOVE that title! Lou McCarthy is a journalist who is best know for going after and exposing the billionaire bro-ciopaths (I also love that word) in Silicone valley. And what has it gotten her? Not much. Her readers don’t seem to care, and her co-workers all feel sorry for her. To top it off, even after exposure, the rich seem to just get richer. However, when two of her latest bad boys end up dead on the same night, her world is turned upside down. She is fired, blamed for the two deaths, and even her mother is caught in the crosshairs. Her only hope is to find the real killers before another person dies. But as Lou digs into the story, she begins to realize that maybe the person responsible is on the same mission as her, and maybe she should help them in their mission! Strong female leads in this book are based on a true story, and it is a great thriller. Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for this interesting read!