Reviews - Ready Player Two

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Ready Player Two

Antonio Torrubia Rodríguez, Ernest Cline

3.28 AVERAGE

taymar95's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

dmcvey2719's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

tedjgraham's review against another edition

3.0

Cline clearly had a message he wanted to deliver. The read was fun, though we didn’t get quite the same character development as Ready Player One.

burritokay's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I really loved the first book but this one was kinda meh. The pacing felt weird to me, as did

Artemis’ 180 re: her attitude toward Parzival

, but the biggest offender was the ending. It felt like such a cheap cop-out and wrapped things up a little too nicely.

tessafaye0104's review against another edition

4.0

I rated this 4 stars Bc I do honestly feel like the writing is mostly solid. I like Cline’s style and his character development. Honestly even the plot is mostly solid (wait. hear me out). However, I have a hard time with this book because of the pacing and the fact that it IS a sequel. I think that it was hard for me to wrap my head around the whole 12 hour premise... esp because of the whole waiting so long to even start the quest, which he KIND OF said was Bc he was waiting for someone to find Halliday’s Easter egg quest. But that brings me to my next problem. The original quest took YEARS.. sooooo then this one has to be completed in 12 hours??? I don’t find that particularly helpful to the story or to the amount of change our main character went through during the course of this book. But that also brings me to the fact that there is a lot of teen angst in here but it’s also like halfway angsty?? Idk it just wasn’t my favorite, but that is also because I love the teamwork that happens and how the characters all lean on each other for help instead of the whole “go it alone” mentality that some books use. It was like Cline started to try some of that but then decided he wanted all the characters there and prominent, so then didn’t and idk, it just felt half way on both accounts, in my opinion.

I tried not to compare it to the first, but Ready Player One was SUCH a fun and different book that focused so hard on this group of misfits working together and this book just didn’t have that story line that I craved at all. And honestly I needed a little more character development after the contest winning that I just didn’t feel was adequate in this book. All in all. Good book, just not as pull you in from every aspect that I feel like I got from Ready Player One.

coffeenancy's review against another edition

3.0

This book picked up the story of Ready Player One (which I LOVED) and was going along in the fashion of many sequels: almost as good, but not quite. The story was intriguing and brought up many interesting ethical discussions related to the ONI. Then after the first several chapters it went rapidly and disappointingly downhill. The story became cartoonish and silly, very strained, and unoriginal. The two stars are because I really enjoyed the initial chapters of the book.

bfls's review against another edition

2.0

Wade Watts was a self-pitying, self-centred, self-absorbed jerk. At one point he wonders why his friends still have time for him. I wondered about the same thing. He grew up a little during the course of the story but not nearly enough.

The trivia this time around was not nearly as entertaining and the quests just seemed to be lots of running around and shouting, instead of clever problem solving.

Perhaps my rating is a little harsh, but I loved the first book and this one isn't in the same league.