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A review by bluebeereads
Armada by Ernest Cline
5.0
Istyria book blog ~ B's world of enchanted books
When I read Ready Player One last year, I was sure there would be no way for this author to top himself. Because that book was SO great and amazing. I have never been so happy to be wrong.
Armada is about Zack. He's daydreaming in another boring math class when he suddenly sees a UFO outside and it looks like one from the videogame he always plays, Armada, in which gamers just happen to be protecting earth from an alien invasion. Initially, he thinks he's going crazy. Suddenly everything becomes all too real and his skills - as well as those from gamers all around the world - are needed to save the world.
While Ready Player One was epic in and of itself, Armada ups the stakes. RPO felt much more... contained. It was more like a high-stakes global treasure hunt. Armada is an all-out intergalactic war that threatens to destroy the world. Both make use of 80's and 90's pop-culture references and I think that's the thing that makes me enjoy them so much. Because I'm not a big science fiction fan, but I just love these books so much! It makes these books just the right amount of nerdy. The writing was fantastic, but I'm sure you already know that. Man... those final 100 pages... Damn.
Because of spoilers, I don't want to talk too much about the characters. I loved all of them though. Especially Zack, the main character, and Lex, a girl he meets in-between the giant mess. I loved both of them instantly. I loved their chemistry a lot and that there wasn't really a romance until the very end of the book. There are some characters I would've liked to see more of though.
Overall, Armada is everything I wanted it to be. It's intense, gripping, full of nail-biting action and plenty of old pop culture references to make any nerdy heart go wild. Ernest Cline can do no wrong and just confirms why he's on my author autobuy list. Read this!
This review is also (or -soon- will be) posted on Istyria book blog.
When I read Ready Player One last year, I was sure there would be no way for this author to top himself. Because that book was SO great and amazing. I have never been so happy to be wrong.
Armada is about Zack. He's daydreaming in another boring math class when he suddenly sees a UFO outside and it looks like one from the videogame he always plays, Armada, in which gamers just happen to be protecting earth from an alien invasion. Initially, he thinks he's going crazy. Suddenly everything becomes all too real and his skills - as well as those from gamers all around the world - are needed to save the world.
While Ready Player One was epic in and of itself, Armada ups the stakes. RPO felt much more... contained. It was more like a high-stakes global treasure hunt. Armada is an all-out intergalactic war that threatens to destroy the world. Both make use of 80's and 90's pop-culture references and I think that's the thing that makes me enjoy them so much. Because I'm not a big science fiction fan, but I just love these books so much! It makes these books just the right amount of nerdy. The writing was fantastic, but I'm sure you already know that. Man... those final 100 pages... Damn.
Because of spoilers, I don't want to talk too much about the characters. I loved all of them though. Especially Zack, the main character, and Lex, a girl he meets in-between the giant mess. I loved both of them instantly. I loved their chemistry a lot and that there wasn't really a romance until the very end of the book. There are some characters I would've liked to see more of though.
Overall, Armada is everything I wanted it to be. It's intense, gripping, full of nail-biting action and plenty of old pop culture references to make any nerdy heart go wild. Ernest Cline can do no wrong and just confirms why he's on my author autobuy list. Read this!
This review is also (or -soon- will be) posted on Istyria book blog.