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A review by capellan
Minecraft: The Island by Max Brooks
2.0
There are many, many unofficial Minecraft novels clogging up the Kindle store. I've never read any of them, but I'd be willing to bet that at least some of them are better than this first Official offering.
Brooks chooses to frame this through the lens of a narrator from the real world who somehow (it is never explained how) finds themselves in the world of Minecraft and must learn how this new reality works. The in-game mechanics become the literal physics of the world in which our narrator exists, in other words, allowing the author to waste word count ruminating on how he doesn't need to go to the toilet anymore and explaining the basic fundamentals of the Minecraft game to the reader, who 99.9% of the time will likely already know them.
Aimless and pedestrian.
Brooks chooses to frame this through the lens of a narrator from the real world who somehow (it is never explained how) finds themselves in the world of Minecraft and must learn how this new reality works. The in-game mechanics become the literal physics of the world in which our narrator exists, in other words, allowing the author to waste word count ruminating on how he doesn't need to go to the toilet anymore and explaining the basic fundamentals of the Minecraft game to the reader, who 99.9% of the time will likely already know them.
Aimless and pedestrian.