This was a hard one for me. I really wanted to like this book but it just didn't work for me. After writing Ready Player One, can you even go up? Cline answers this question with a definite no. The characters are flat and so is the plot. There is no real excitement or sense of pressure. The ending was cleared mapped out in the novel so it wasn't surprising to get to the end AKA the ending that was built up the whole time. Maybe Cline was feeling the pressure after writing such a great work of fiction but really, where is his editor? I wouldn't recommend this novel but I would highly recommend RPO. Apologies to Cline for having to use his other novel for comparison but with such a thing to live up to, I don't think anyone could have pulled off a second novel that sounds exactly like the first.
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