Case is a data thief, living on the brink of death. Until one day he is contacted by a woman and a man with cold eyes, who offer him a solution to the toxin damaging his body and ask him to join them against the siege of the Tessier-Ashpool company, with its AIs and mysteries.

This is one of the most confusing books I've ever read. I understood almost nothing: scenes without transitions, concepts that had no translation (English isn't my first language), a tendency to narrate and speak ill of women, their objectification, pointless sex scenes, idiotic descriptions of bodies, and poor characterization... In addition to the slow pace of the first parts, the characters lacked depth. However, from what I could grasp of the plot, I found it interesting. The protagonists' mission. Case's problems, his relationship with the AIs, with people, with cyberspace, with the real world and its issues. The interference of technology in life, the black market, the differences between countries and social classes... and the human psyche. The narration of those moments and some of the dialogue were witty and entertaining. It frustrates me that I liked the ending, with its feeling of nostalgia and impossibilities, or perhaps hope, because the beginning and the development seemed confusing and irritating.

Molly Luck has inherited her father's ranch after his sudden death. However, she discovers that foreman Cash Rivers also wants the inheritance, as her father promised it to him. Will the contract be honored, and will she keep the property? Will anything more than discord develop between them?

A simple cowboy story: brat girl after money, annoying and hardworking guy, they don't get along, but both find the other attractive. They talk. They flirt. Jealousy. Sex. Sex. Heteronormativity. Family and mourning. Sex. Nothing interesting. The male protagonist gave me the ick with his domineering and disrespectful thoughts and actions.