Ive just had to look this novel up as i was trying to describe it to my partner and i wanted to get a copy to show her to see what she thought, we're both sci-fi fans, i thought it was called biopunk or biophage it took me a while to realise it was this
I liked the book, i like neuromancer/william gibson/neal Stevenson/ snowcrash but i also like hardwired for its 80s scifi film futurism, its cinematic. Id also listened to the audiobook version of this (it was/is on youtube) and enjoyed it.