A brilliant sci fi read that hooks from the first few paragraphs. Sil is a character I immediately wanted to know more about.

Slick, stylish and full of turns I didn't see coming, Mindwalker is a fast paced story set in a sci-fi world not too dissimilar to our own. Sil is a my new favourite character, her combination of tech smarts and snark kept the tone lighthearted and fun, while the ticking clock in her body added a constant sense of danger.

Soldiers trained and owned by a massive corporation is already a terrifying thought, and as Sil uncovers their secrets and finds out that they've been Mindwalking - taking over people's minds and controlling them - without their permission, it just gets scarier. On the run with a bounty on her head, she teams up with friends and enemies to take down the place she once called home.

This seems to be a standalone, but I would love a sequel or two expanding Sil's world and the characters in it. I really want to find out what happens to Sil next, and if she succeeded in her mission and can find a place for herself in society after leaving.

Thank you, Hodder & Stoughton, for the ARC of this book. I really enjoyed reading about Sil’s journey. I liked the dystopian world in the book and the technical yet accessible language used to describe various aspects of the mindwalkers’ purpose. It’s a solid story that will appeal to YA readers as well as older audience interested in the genre. Kate Dylan did an incredible job writing this novel!
PS I’d also like to mention how gorgeous the cover is :)

What a book! I’m so excited for this to make its way into the world.
From the very first chapter I was hooked and it was like nothing I’ve ever had the pleasure of ready before. I struggled to put it down.

I loved Sil’s journey as our main character and the trials and tribulations she faced.

I mean mindwalking!! Like what?!?!

It’s fast paced and thrilling and sass levels are off the charts at times. Plus we have Marvel references and snazzy tech. What’s not to like?

DO NOT SURRENDER CONTROL

Mindwalker is a fast-paced, action-packed thrill ride through post-apocalyptic New York. With a gripping and twisty plot and strong characters you immediately connect with, you won't want to put it down.

After a chillingly plausible apocalypse wipes out most of humanity, tech corps run the world. Sil Sarrah is the brightest employee at the biggest of these companies, with a perfect record and dear friends. When a mission goes wrong and she has to leave everything she knows behind, she teams up with one of her company's enemies to try and win back her favour.

Mindwalker is just crying out for a movie adaptation; an animation that gets Sil's rainbow hair just right would be incredible. If you can read whilst listening to music, Danger Days by My Chemical Romance is the perfect soundtrack to this book (come on film companies, I am doing your work for you. Pick this book up and give it the post-apocalyptic glam emo soundtrack it deserves).

The Marvel references are delightful and the characters are charming, unique, and feel so vivid and well-realised. I would have liked to read more about the state of the rest of the world outside of the New York cell, but that's just the geographer in me talking.

The tech is one of the stars of this story. It's such an interesting concept and even I, a luddite who doesn't understand technology, thought it was really cool.

Mindwalker is perfect for fans of good old fashioned 00s/10s dystopian YA, with headstrong girls and pretty boys taking on the world.

i don’t usually read sci-fi but <b>mindwalker</b> was just intrigued me so much, with the tech dystopia world concept and mc with an AI in her head? there’s no way i’ll miss it!

the story follows sil, an eighteen year old syntex agent prodigy who has 100% total of performance stats. i had a blast delving into their tech world through sil’s mind (accompanied by jarvis). it was thrilling as the book moved fast, the plot was unraveled so quickly. it was full of action and despite the whole futuristic theme, the worldbuilding wasn’t really hard to follow along.

i predicted most of the plot, even the twist, but i liked how the story came out. i liked fast-paced book but the relationship between sil & the rest of the crew was developed way too quickly and despite that this book was pitched as found family trope—which i agree so much—there wasn’t really a ‘bonding’ moment there. we rarely see ryder’s crews together with sil. though her dynamic with aja was solid. the tension & emotional scenes were there. the characters were all also likeable. even if you don’t like cyberpunk theme, please do give this book a fair try!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher Hodder & Stoughton for providing me with an eARC in exchange for an honest review!

Mindwalker is a fast paced, action packed sci-fi thriller set in a post-apocalyptic world with fiercely drawn borders in a tech-company controlled hellscape where corporate espionage is the game and Mindwalkers are at the peak.

Sil Sarrah is a shinning success of the Syntex Corporation, creators of everything you need to survive in a post-nuclear wasteland. From food synthesizers to immunity boosters to neural link technology capable of overriding your mind, with your permission of course.

Mindwalkers are Syntex Corporation agents that through a cerebral intelligence processor grafted onto their brains are able to mind-meld, taking over the minds of endangered agents in the field and using their computer to rapidly process information and hack systems in order to get them to safety.

From the age of eight, when Sil signed up to be an agent for the company, she knew fully well that she wasn’t getting out alive: by nineteen most Mindwalker’s die gruesome deaths as the supercomputer attached to their brains degrades and implodes.

With that in mind, and a life measured by days, not years, Sil has one goal. She WILL be remembered as the greatest Mindwalker. As a legend who never lost an agent.

So when something messes up her perfect extraction score and she’s branded a traitor spy by the very company she’s devoted her life to.

She scrambles onto a plan to get back to her rightful place, but her fall from grace has revealed something rotting in the organization she so believes in, and new alliances allow her to see her path, her life and her goals in a whole new sordid light but with her CIP degrading at a staggering pace and her time running out, Sil has to find a way to save her friends and get to the truth of Syntex.

I enjoyed this one so much, it was very hard to put down, and at several points I was at the edge of my seat furiously turning the page reading so fast! And the twist?!?! My jaw literally dropped!!!!!

The highlight of this for me was the character work, which was superb! We get this very scared and sad but outwardly disgruntled tough type heroine, a product of her world, who’s used to being in absolute control, tossed into a situation where she has to rely on people who hold views that are the antithesis to hers. We get to watch her come to terms with the agency and control that she thought she had and what she actually has being drastically different. We get to see she change over the course of the book and with that change came soooo many tears (on my side). The secondary cast of characters were also so compelling, especially Ryder, and Aja who came through with menacing glances from the later and sweet, sweet sarcastic bickering from the former!

The world it’s set in has these beautiful and bright facades set over the burned out demolished building of the pre-apocalyptic past (a metaphor if there ever was one) . Very blade runner/ghost in the shell.

I definitely recommend this one to fans of cyberpunk who also like their stories to pack an emotional punch!

A delightful read and wild ride from start to finish. MINDWALKER has you hooked from the very beginning with a determined protagonist just trying her very best. When everything she's worked hard for is ripped out from under her, Sil enters a whirlwind journey of questioning everything she stood for. Whether or not you're a fan of Sci-Fi / cyberpunk, you definitely want to read this book!

A WILD RIDE. This book is so fast paced with a ton of inventive twists. It's incredibly clever with lots of cool references to tech – a truly fun dystopian read. The first person narrative worked really well – I loved Sil! There was plenty of action and I found myself truly gripped throughout. A very, very cool read.

What a baller, cyberpunk ride from beginning to end! The amount of thought that went into this story and how technology consumed the world was outstanding. Not one dull moment. In fact, the pacing was perfection. 5 Star recommend!

3.5 stars

Mindwalker is a fast-paced, sci-fi story which I enjoyed very much. While reading this book, you won't get bored because is full of action and unpredictable events. The whole concept is original with tech elements and futuristic-like worldbuilding. The characters were likable and I adored Sil's snarky attitude. So, why the low rating? Because in the whole, the story develops too fast and there's no time to build solid and profound relationships between the characters. Even the ending was a bit rushed. But it was still a good story and I recommend it if you want to read something fun and action packed.

*Thank you to Netgalley and Hodder and Stoughton for an eARC!

Mindwalker is a fantastic nonstop sci-fi adventure. I read this book in two sittings, it’s so much fun! I love Sil and Kate Dylan’s entire cast of disaster kids.

The world building is so fascinating and easy to digest. No need to worry about your brain exploding. The plot twists had me reeling! I love Kate Dylan’s writing and I can’t wait to read more from her!

Well written with a compelling, heart in your mouth storyline and well developed characters, with a level of world building that is abasolutely fantastic. This book had me on the edge of my seat the whole time.

Mindwalker is a heart-pounding, twisty sci-fi story set in an inventive, immersive world, full of characters you want to hug, even when they have prickly exteriors (I’m looking at you, Sil!). The writing is top notch, the pacing keeps you wildly turning the pages, and Sil’s journey will have you rooting for her and doing a lot of yelling! I can’t recommend this one enough, YA sci-fi at its best!

Sil is a Syntex Mindwalker, fitted with technology that allows her to enter the mind of field agents, take over their bodies and get them out of sticky situations. She has never failed - until she does, and set off an unexpected chain of events.

This book is mind blowing (pun intended). Excellent world building and characters you can't help but root for, it is the perfect mix of action and sci fi. Kate Dylan has definitely landed very firmly on my auto-buy author list.

I received a copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

To everyone out there who is a fan of Divergent, The Hunger Games and other awesome dystopian books: Brace yourselves for a brand new fantastically electrifying new adventure full of riveting action, brand-new tech, chilling secrets and hair-raising discoveries. All in set in a future were the world both looks and functions different but the greed of man, and the evil creations and actions thereof, remains a constant.

Have I caught your attention yet? Good.

Mindwalker is a dystopian novel which deserves to be read. It’s so well written with a strong worldbuilding and utterly intriguing characters, each with their own background story. As much as I really like the MC, Sil Sarrah, she was far from the only interesting character in this cast. So, even though Mindwalker comes off as a standalone, I’m definitely crossing my fingers for more books about this lot.

I haven’t been this invested in and excited about a young adult dystopian book since Divergent was published back in 2011. (That’s 11 years of waiting for something like Mindwalker to show up. 11 whole years! So please, Kate Dylan, if you by some small chance are reading this, have mercy on me and don’t let me wait another 11 years for the next one ;) )

|| Thank you so much to Hodder & Stoughton for providing me with an eARC through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review! ||

I am very impressed. This read was engaging from first chapter, has an extremely fun entertaining MC and some enemies-to-lovers scenes that I definitely wasn’t expecting from this type of book.

I adore the unpredictability of this read, I can tell you now, you will not expect what happens. I was SHOOK to my very core. But as well as this, the plot was fast paced and decidedly fun to follow.

There are not enough words to explain how intrinsically fantastic this book is, you just gotta read it!

If you like sarcastic loveable characters, a thrilling plot line and plot twists that give you whiplash, this is the book for you.

Mindwalker is a thrill from top to bottom.

A heart pounding book that rips you through the pages with dazzling tech and high stakes operations, until the world slowly chips and crumbles to show the rot festering underneath. And from top to bottom, all kinds of incredible.

Sil is prickly and ready to fight anybody that dares ask her to examine her feelings, and gosh did I love her. How she’s holding herself together with glue but unwilling to admit that. And how she comes across people who might even be more stubborn than her (WHO I ADORE).

The world is masterfully built, with complicated tech explained in a way that made it easy to understand and endlessly fascinating. Seriously, a super computer shoved inside a teenagers head, with a ticking time clock attached to it. Isn’t that one of the coolest things? And Kate writes it in such a way that makes it even cooler.

Truly, this book made me want to scream with its top notch sarcasm and TRULY top notch twists. It’s full of grit, but with enough humor to make every single character endearing and so lovable (prickles and all). What an author Kate Dylan is.