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paigehf's review against another edition
adventurous
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence and Death
Moderate: Transphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Mental illness, and Blood
Minor: Rape
a_novi's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
I really enjoyed this book. I think giving wade an asshole phase once he got rich always made sense. It’s only realistic, bezos and musk style. But the challenges and experiences help him learn that his love for his friends and partner is far more important than his addiction to the internet and the oasis. The theme of mystery video game is carried over from the first book and I enjoyed the darker view we get into a disturbed Halliday’s mind. It is a good lesson for wade not to repeat the same mistakes that Halliday did. The plot twist of Anorack gaining AI consciousness was exciting and I loved the suspense of trying to defeat him! I hope they don’t butcher the movie like they did with RP1 but my hopes are low.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Cancer, Chronic illness, Grief, Mental illness, Blood, Confinement, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Violence
aseel_reads's review
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Like the first book, the info dump of 80s pop culture is annoying, but when take that all away, the plot is okay and I did like the Tolkien and prince worlds, cool premise
Content Warnings
Minor: Kidnapping, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Death, Mental illness, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, and Cancer
kelly_e's review
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Title: Ready Player Two
Author: Ernest Cline
Series: Ready Player One #2
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: 2.75
Pub Date: November 24, 2020
T H R E E • W O R D S
Imaginative • Adventurous • Disappointing
📖 S Y N O P S I S
Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything.
Hidden within Halliday's vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous--and addictive--than even Wade dreamed possible.
With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest--a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize.
And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who'll kill millions to get what he wants.
Wade's life and the future of the OASIS are again at stake, but this time the fate of humanity also hangs in the balance.
💭 T H O U G H T S
I absolutely (and surprisingly) loved Ready Player One, so I was excited when I found out there would be a sequel. Unfortunately, this one didn't have the same impact as the first one did.
Some of the ideas and quests were interesting, yet as the story progressed I found it harder and harder to stay invested in what was happening, which was the opposite in book one. Oddly, as the stakes got higher, I found myself caring less. It's quite possible that there's just too much content that I didn't know about or relate to. Wade's character arc shows a lot of development from start to finish, something we didn't get in book one. The focus on a group of friends working together to solve the quests was appreciated.
Ready Player One is one of those books that would have been better off left as a stand-alone. I can understand some readers are really going to be drawn into it if they have an interest in all of the pop culture references. Again, I'd highly recommend the audio narrated by Wil Wheaton as he does a fantastic job.
📚 R E C O M M E N D • T O
• 80/90s babies
• science fiction fans
🔖 F A V O U R I T E • Q U O T E S
"Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people. We were designed by evolution to be hunter-gatherers, with the mental capacity to interact and socialize with the other members of our tribe—a tribe made up of a few hundred other people at most. Interacting with thousands or even millions of other people on a daily basis was way too much for our ape-descended melons to handle. That was why social media had been gradually driving the entire population of the world insane since it emerged back around the turn of the century."
Author: Ernest Cline
Series: Ready Player One #2
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: 2.75
Pub Date: November 24, 2020
T H R E E • W O R D S
Imaginative • Adventurous • Disappointing
📖 S Y N O P S I S
Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything.
Hidden within Halliday's vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous--and addictive--than even Wade dreamed possible.
With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest--a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize.
And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who'll kill millions to get what he wants.
Wade's life and the future of the OASIS are again at stake, but this time the fate of humanity also hangs in the balance.
💭 T H O U G H T S
I absolutely (and surprisingly) loved Ready Player One, so I was excited when I found out there would be a sequel. Unfortunately, this one didn't have the same impact as the first one did.
Some of the ideas and quests were interesting, yet as the story progressed I found it harder and harder to stay invested in what was happening, which was the opposite in book one. Oddly, as the stakes got higher, I found myself caring less. It's quite possible that there's just too much content that I didn't know about or relate to. Wade's character arc shows a lot of development from start to finish, something we didn't get in book one. The focus on a group of friends working together to solve the quests was appreciated.
Ready Player One is one of those books that would have been better off left as a stand-alone. I can understand some readers are really going to be drawn into it if they have an interest in all of the pop culture references. Again, I'd highly recommend the audio narrated by Wil Wheaton as he does a fantastic job.
📚 R E C O M M E N D • T O
• 80/90s babies
• science fiction fans
🔖 F A V O U R I T E • Q U O T E S
"Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people. We were designed by evolution to be hunter-gatherers, with the mental capacity to interact and socialize with the other members of our tribe—a tribe made up of a few hundred other people at most. Interacting with thousands or even millions of other people on a daily basis was way too much for our ape-descended melons to handle. That was why social media had been gradually driving the entire population of the world insane since it emerged back around the turn of the century."
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Mental illness, Confinement, Drug use, Grief, Addiction, Kidnapping, Death, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug abuse, and Stalking
Minor: Homophobia, Sexual content, Ableism, Cursing, and Body shaming
overdosenaychapman's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
A sequel to Ready Player One, this book is equally full of adventure and pop culture references.
It takes place a few days after RPO left off. I found it very slow to start and it wasn’t until about Chapter 8 that it began taking off. Very different from Book One, which had a much better pace of events. It does still have a lot of mystery and suspense, and I would love to see what might be done with it if it were taken up as a movie. It might be that I was listening to the audiobook version, but it was difficult to follow the fighting sequences at times.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence and Cursing
Moderate: Addiction
Minor: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Death of parent
kaadee's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
God, ok where do I start? I love Ready Player one so much that I have the book personally signed with my name and everything. That book helped me through such a dark period of my life that re-reading it is an emotional rollercoaster. I bought Ready Player Two a week after it came out and it has sat on my shelf ever since. I didn’t want to read it because the book holds such precious memories for me that if RP2 was bad I would be very VERY upset. The movie was a disaster so finding out there was a Ready player two… I didn’t know what to expect.
Reading this book is like finally getting an ice cream cone after years of not having one and then dropping it on the ground. I have a hate and love for this book that I can’t even begin to describe. I love the universe, I love the concept of the OASIS and absolutely love the concept of the ONI. After reading other peoples reviews, I have to agree that this is just Sword Art Online done worse. I enjoyed the artificial intelligence aspect, especially Kira but it was just done so badly. It wasn’t explained that well and I had to kinda stop sometimes because I didn’t know wtf I was reading. The collection of the seven shards was done so quickly that it just made all of it scrambled together and the only shard part I enjoyed was through the virtual school/wade’s treehouse.
I am not a huge fan of lord of the rings so all the references just flew over my head and tbh I think it would for anyone else who hasn’t watched the movies. At least the first book gave some explanations but this one not at all. So I was stuck just imagining random characters with little detail.
I enjoyed the ending, to be honest I cried because I felt like it was an ok enough ending for the characters I loved. It was ok. That’s it. It wasn’t fucking amazing like the last book and him winning the prize.. it was just meh.
When I thought the author couldn’t make Wade an even bigger asshole it turns out I was wrong. I hated Wade KINDA in the first book but I just chalked it up to the author not knowing how to make a good male character. Ok, that was fine, I could overlook the very large misogynistic and stalker tendencies but that was still a huge critic of the first book for me. Damn, the second book just made him EVEN WORSE!!!! I was definitely waiting for Wade to get SOS and just die because I hated how whiny he was. I still love Artemis and Aech, and even Shoto! They’re still amazing but Wade just became more of a terrible human.
Nolan Sorrento was huge part of the last book and his death was mediocre, he gets mentioned like twice, one of them being when he dies. For such an important character last book you’d think we’d spend more time understanding him or focusing on him. Nope, instead we get a stalker, sociopath Anorak who’s gone off the rails. I hated this character arc for Anorak because at least last book he was just a recluse. No no, this book he has no empathy, uploads peoples brains without permission and almost kills everybody. I hated every second of it and I wanted to skip through it just to keep going.
Skylar, the leader of the low-five was just put there for representation. That pissed me off to NO end when I realized she wasn’t going to be in the book more. The author just wanted to throw some terribly written diversity in and then call it a day. I wish they focused on her character more because she seemed like a total badass.
Anyway, I’ll probably read this book in a couple years and give a more updated review cause I’m heated right now. In my mind, this book isn’t canon and the high five just lived their billion dollar lives saving the world and being happy. First book should have been a stand alone.
Reading this book is like finally getting an ice cream cone after years of not having one and then dropping it on the ground. I have a hate and love for this book that I can’t even begin to describe. I love the universe, I love the concept of the OASIS and absolutely love the concept of the ONI. After reading other peoples reviews, I have to agree that this is just Sword Art Online done worse. I enjoyed the artificial intelligence aspect, especially Kira but it was just done so badly. It wasn’t explained that well and I had to kinda stop sometimes because I didn’t know wtf I was reading. The collection of the seven shards was done so quickly that it just made all of it scrambled together and the only shard part I enjoyed was through the virtual school/wade’s treehouse.
I am not a huge fan of lord of the rings so all the references just flew over my head and tbh I think it would for anyone else who hasn’t watched the movies. At least the first book gave some explanations but this one not at all. So I was stuck just imagining random characters with little detail.
I enjoyed the ending, to be honest I cried because I felt like it was an ok enough ending for the characters I loved. It was ok. That’s it. It wasn’t fucking amazing like the last book and him winning the prize.. it was just meh.
When I thought the author couldn’t make Wade an even bigger asshole it turns out I was wrong. I hated Wade KINDA in the first book but I just chalked it up to the author not knowing how to make a good male character. Ok, that was fine, I could overlook the very large misogynistic and stalker tendencies but that was still a huge critic of the first book for me. Damn, the second book just made him EVEN WORSE!!!! I was definitely waiting for Wade to get SOS and just die because I hated how whiny he was. I still love Artemis and Aech, and even Shoto! They’re still amazing but Wade just became more of a terrible human.
Nolan Sorrento was huge part of the last book and his death was mediocre, he gets mentioned like twice, one of them being when he dies. For such an important character last book you’d think we’d spend more time understanding him or focusing on him. Nope, instead we get a stalker, sociopath Anorak who’s gone off the rails. I hated this character arc for Anorak because at least last book he was just a recluse. No no, this book he has no empathy, uploads peoples brains without permission and almost kills everybody. I hated every second of it and I wanted to skip through it just to keep going.
Skylar, the leader of the low-five was just put there for representation. That pissed me off to NO end when I realized she wasn’t going to be in the book more. The author just wanted to throw some terribly written diversity in and then call it a day. I wish they focused on her character more because she seemed like a total badass.
Anyway, I’ll probably read this book in a couple years and give a more updated review cause I’m heated right now. In my mind, this book isn’t canon and the high five just lived their billion dollar lives saving the world and being happy. First book should have been a stand alone.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Mental illness, Classism, Stalking, and Toxic friendship
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