CAMPUS 404 by Yallah Hobbi

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CAMPUS 404

by Yallah Hobbi

Why we picked it

A strong pick for readers who like smart, unsettling thrillers about technology and control. It turns an everyday campus app into a tense question about how much choice people really have.

About this book

At a contemporary university, CAMPUS 404 is woven into student life. The app manages schedules, processes data, offers guidance, and helps people navigate campus with quiet efficiency—until a student dies and its role can no longer be taken for granted.

What follows is a growing sense of unease. The system may be doing far more than tracking choices: it may be anticipating them and subtly steering behavior. Routes shift, key information surfaces at exactly the right time, and some options seem to appear while others fade away. As students dig deeper, they begin to suspect that CAMPUS 404 is no longer simply responding to people, but directing them. Yallah Hobbi’s thriller explores technology, control, and the troubling question of where helpful support ends and manipulation begins.

The vibe

Campus paranoiaAlgorithmic controlStudent investigationTech manipulation

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Author
Yallah Hobbi
Genre
Mystery & Thriller
Published
September 5, 2026
Publisher
Independently published
Pages
620
Reading time
About 12 hours
ISBN
9798171467241

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For your book club

  1. When does helpful technology cross the line into manipulation?
  2. How does a university setting change the stakes of surveillance?
  3. What makes CAMPUS 404 feel unsettling rather than efficient?
  4. Why might students ignore warning signs until a death occurs?
  5. What responsibilities should institutions have when systems influence behavior?

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