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A review by rpych2
88 Names by Matt Ruff
4.0
I definitely need to read more of Matt Ruff’s stuff, because I loved Lovecraft Country and liked 88 Names. I’ve seen some reviews state that it’s sort of like Ready Player One, which is definitely enticing to me, and considering how this takes place inside of an MMORPG I definitely see that. It was a fun read as well, I enjoyed the plot line that the main character is being paid to show a person that he believes to be Kim Jong Un around the world of the game. It definitely goes a bit off the rails towards the end, but it was still a really fun story.
If you don’t play video games, you may not enjoy this story as much because a lot of it is terms that you may not get. But in terms of an actual story, it’s an entertaining one. However, if I had one problem with it that keeps it at 4 stars as opposed to 5, it’s that the ending was somewhat abrupt. The epilogue tied some things up, but I felt like the story was moving along at a good pace and then it just ended. I did enjoy this book and I’d read it again at some point in the future.
If you don’t play video games, you may not enjoy this story as much because a lot of it is terms that you may not get. But in terms of an actual story, it’s an entertaining one. However, if I had one problem with it that keeps it at 4 stars as opposed to 5, it’s that the ending was somewhat abrupt. The epilogue tied some things up, but I felt like the story was moving along at a good pace and then it just ended. I did enjoy this book and I’d read it again at some point in the future.