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The God Game
by Danny Tobey
I think that many people will really enjoy The God Game. I, however, am not one of those people. And it's a bummer because I was SO excited for this book. The synopsis gave me Ready Player One vibes - but where Ready Player One gave me all the feels - The God Game only pissed me off.
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Charlie Lake and his friends, "The Vindicators", a club of coders and hackers (high schoolers, too), receive a mysterious invitation from a "God" AI inviting them to play The God Game, which combines a world of augmented reality with the real world. Certain deeds requested by the game will bring them points, Goldzz, and refusing to do these deeds will put them in a dark hold of Blaxx (negative points). The pranks, however, are not in the game, they are in the real world. that's the catch! There's nothing wrong with pulling pranks in a fake world video game, but in the real world, people can get hurt. What starts out as innocent pranks that most kids probably commit at some time or other turns into serious offenses. Beating someone senseless. Revealing life-changing secrets to the public. Perhaps, even, murder.
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My issues with this book:
- The writing. It is not good. And I can't handle that. The premise, to me, was soooo good. And it was spoiled by contrived writing, shallow characters, and bizarre dialogue.
- It's dark. This book will give you NO warm fuzzies. That's fine, I guess. But this book just felt a evil to me.
- The plot. I still don't really get the game. Blah. The author rushed through what could have been cool bits and didn't give us enough detail to really understand what was going on.
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This wasn't for me.
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Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for an ARC of The God Game.
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Charlie Lake and his friends, "The Vindicators", a club of coders and hackers (high schoolers, too), receive a mysterious invitation from a "God" AI inviting them to play The God Game, which combines a world of augmented reality with the real world. Certain deeds requested by the game will bring them points, Goldzz, and refusing to do these deeds will put them in a dark hold of Blaxx (negative points). The pranks, however, are not in the game, they are in the real world. that's the catch! There's nothing wrong with pulling pranks in a fake world video game, but in the real world, people can get hurt. What starts out as innocent pranks that most kids probably commit at some time or other turns into serious offenses. Beating someone senseless. Revealing life-changing secrets to the public. Perhaps, even, murder.
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My issues with this book:
- The writing. It is not good. And I can't handle that. The premise, to me, was soooo good. And it was spoiled by contrived writing, shallow characters, and bizarre dialogue.
- It's dark. This book will give you NO warm fuzzies. That's fine, I guess. But this book just felt a evil to me.
- The plot. I still don't really get the game. Blah. The author rushed through what could have been cool bits and didn't give us enough detail to really understand what was going on.
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This wasn't for me.
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Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for an ARC of The God Game.