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3.65 AVERAGE
3.65 AVERAGE
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
slow-paced
While I enjoy Dashner’s stories, this is the second time that the second book in a series has been slow and difficult for me. The book has a few fun twists and continues to explore the lines between artificial intelligence and consciousness, reality and fabrication, and power structures out to help themselves more than those they serve. Yet, I found myself struggling to keep on reading about, what is essentially, kids meandering around with a vague, chatty plot.
As with the maze runner, I am hoping the third book will pull me back in with more of a concrete story and some much deserved answers to the mysteries and secret motives of the major players.
As with the maze runner, I am hoping the third book will pull me back in with more of a concrete story and some much deserved answers to the mysteries and secret motives of the major players.
adventurous
mysterious
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Perfection. I literally jumped out of excitement after reading the end. Can't wait for the Game of Lives.
Not going to lie, it took me awhile to get into this one. Not sure if I just wasn't ready for a read like this or it was just a bad beginning but I stuck with it and was so glad I did. Picks up right where Eye of Minds leaves you. It's a bit wordy and not much happens in the beginning except a lot of whining on Michaels/Jacksons part but once he meets up with some people it starts to get good. There's tons happening and its action packed for the rest of the book to keep you turning that page.
adventurous
dark
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Kaine has just made the startling revelation that Michael is a Tangent. A string of computer code that had become self-aware and is now housed in a brand-new body, courtesy of Kaine himself. By finding the Path and the Hallowed Ravine, Michael has accomplished what no other gamer has and is now the first breakthrough in Kaine's Mortality Doctrine: a plan to inhabit human bodies with artificial intelligences. But Michael is horrified at the thought, fleeing to find his best friends Sarah and Bryson.
Connecting with and finding his friends in the real world is a bit more complicated, and the stakes are heightened when Sarah's parents are taken and held against the kids' cooperation with Kaine. But it's not an option to cooperate with the Tangent computer program bent on wreaking havoc and pulling no punches in his mysterious, violent plans for some kind of world domination.
But they do have a friend in VNS (VirtNet Security) and Agent Weber, who first started them on this mission. Armed with Hider programming to avoid the vicious monsterous KillSims, Michael, Sarah and Bryson are sent into the Sleep to search Kaine out. What they find is confusing and terrifying, but somewhere in the defunct and abandoned games, glitchy pixelated landscapes, gamers being attacked and disintegrated, disappearing Portals, and literal seas of wriggling snippets of code, they gather enough information to be thoroughly freaked out. Reporting back to Weber and the VNS, a plan is hatched to destroy Kaine's core programming in the Sleep to prevent his transferring over to the real world of the Wake. It should be as simple as planting a bomb, but then everything goes terribly wrong.
VNS has not been upfront. In fact, Michael, Sarah and Bryson have been massively deceived and might even have destroyed any indication or link of all the sly things the organization has been doing, including. Now the trio is sitting in jail for setting off an actual bomb in real Atlanta. Kaine is still out there. Everyone has questions and key people have secrets.
How will this tangled Web (pun intended) be unraveled? When will the truth come out? Will computers prevail? What IS reality? Is there any hope for humanity?
Connecting with and finding his friends in the real world is a bit more complicated, and the stakes are heightened when Sarah's parents are taken and held against the kids' cooperation with Kaine. But it's not an option to cooperate with the Tangent computer program bent on wreaking havoc and pulling no punches in his mysterious, violent plans for some kind of world domination.
But they do have a friend in VNS (VirtNet Security) and Agent Weber, who first started them on this mission. Armed with Hider programming to avoid the vicious monsterous KillSims, Michael, Sarah and Bryson are sent into the Sleep to search Kaine out. What they find is confusing and terrifying, but somewhere in the defunct and abandoned games, glitchy pixelated landscapes, gamers being attacked and disintegrated, disappearing Portals, and literal seas of wriggling snippets of code, they gather enough information to be thoroughly freaked out. Reporting back to Weber and the VNS, a plan is hatched to destroy Kaine's core programming in the Sleep to prevent his transferring over to the real world of the Wake. It should be as simple as planting a bomb, but then everything goes terribly wrong.
VNS has not been upfront. In fact, Michael, Sarah and Bryson have been massively deceived and might even have destroyed any indication or link of all the sly things the organization has been doing, including
Spoiler
the creation of KaineHow will this tangled Web (pun intended) be unraveled? When will the truth come out? Will computers prevail? What IS reality? Is there any hope for humanity?
don’t expect genius writing from Dashner.
It’s not bad, easy and quick to read. Much better than Scorch Trials as the middle book in his other series.
The characters are all interchangeable. The all have the same skills and much the same personality.
There’s another
Not even the readers know, what is real and what is not. And there doesn’t seem to really be any limits in “coding”. Anything can happen at any time…or it can’t because Suddenly it’s too difficult. But then ooh, actually can do it after all. Groans. Set some rules into your world Dashner and stick to them.
It’s not bad, easy and quick to read. Much better than Scorch Trials as the middle book in his other series.
The characters are all interchangeable. The all have the same skills and much the same personality.
There’s another
Spoiler
twist at the end. Dashner, there is such a thing as too many twists.Not even the readers know, what is real and what is not. And there doesn’t seem to really be any limits in “coding”. Anything can happen at any time…or it can’t because Suddenly it’s too difficult. But then ooh, actually can do it after all. Groans. Set some rules into your world Dashner and stick to them.