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Username: Evie
by Joe Sugg
I was looking forward to reading this comic but it did not turn out how I imagined. I thought the idea was interesting: having a world in cyberspace and it adapts to how you interact with the people in that cyberspace world. Plot was an interesting idea but where it falls short is character development and the whys.
Some spoilers in the following paragraphs!!!
Why was Evie bullied? Why did people make her life so miserable? We never learn why?? She hangs out with this other boy but their relationship felt so dull. The whole time we see Evie, she is sad about being bullied in school and she hides in a fridge???????????? I'm missing something here. I don't understand the why. I felt pity for her and there seems to be an attempt to encourage us to root for Evie but it felt so rushed and more could be said. There should have been more to Evie than that.
This is my deal with Mallory: Why was Mallory so mean? Why did Mallory just walk into a brand new world and turn everyone into vicious savages? What is her background story? What was her perspective? What actually happened to her in e.scape? Did the world some how put her in a trance or she went into an evil trance while in the world? Why was she so hell bent on finding Evie and ... what? kill her? She gathers a full crowd of cyber people turned savages to confront Evie. But I don't understand why nor what she planned to do? It felt like Mallory was just a stereotypical antagonist just so we would feel sorry for Evie. She deserved so much more than that. The ending where Evie converts her "back" to her usual self was weird. It was only because she was hanging off a cliff and about to plummet to her death is when we find out she was in some sort of trance so she was not evil to begin with? I don't understand. Poor character development here.
Also, who was the guy at the end?? He was the other person who did not turn savage and could think for himself in e.scape. But why did they want to bring him back to the real world?? Why was he different?? I don't understand. There was also Evie's father who programmed himself in e.scape and somehow able to have control over the world? We have no idea how much control her dad had in this world which was strange. Evie had to go find her father to help save e.scape but why? I don't understand. (Evie's father is dead by the way and created e.scape so that Evie could escape from her unexplained miserable life). Unity was fine; s/he was an all-seeing being in the world but had to choose between ethical dilemmas? But why was Unity needed? Why could the father not have been the one who greets her in the beginning? If the world was made purely for Evie then why did they need Unity to greet people? Was her father expecting her to bring her non-existent friends? I also think Unity was suppose to be the knowledge dump and through her we get a glimpse of why Mallory is so evil but it stops there? No talking about feelings? No confrontation of any sort? Literally none of the characters understand each other.
I was hoping that as soon as Evie finds out the world has gone into shit, she would be the one who learns to program how to fix the world or something. But the whole time she just walks back and forth, sort of fending herself against these monster-zombie-not-real-people. I know she was suppose to find confidence and stuff through this journey but I just can't help but feel like this story was so under developed. Evie could have done so much more.
I have so many questions and ended the book feeling very unsatisfied and confused. It was a quick read but hardly worth that time. Joe could do better.
Some spoilers in the following paragraphs!!!
Why was Evie bullied? Why did people make her life so miserable? We never learn why?? She hangs out with this other boy but their relationship felt so dull. The whole time we see Evie, she is sad about being bullied in school and she hides in a fridge???????????? I'm missing something here. I don't understand the why. I felt pity for her and there seems to be an attempt to encourage us to root for Evie but it felt so rushed and more could be said. There should have been more to Evie than that.
This is my deal with Mallory: Why was Mallory so mean? Why did Mallory just walk into a brand new world and turn everyone into vicious savages? What is her background story? What was her perspective? What actually happened to her in e.scape? Did the world some how put her in a trance or she went into an evil trance while in the world? Why was she so hell bent on finding Evie and ... what? kill her? She gathers a full crowd of cyber people turned savages to confront Evie. But I don't understand why nor what she planned to do? It felt like Mallory was just a stereotypical antagonist just so we would feel sorry for Evie. She deserved so much more than that. The ending where Evie converts her "back" to her usual self was weird. It was only because she was hanging off a cliff and about to plummet to her death is when we find out she was in some sort of trance so she was not evil to begin with? I don't understand. Poor character development here.
Also, who was the guy at the end?? He was the other person who did not turn savage and could think for himself in e.scape. But why did they want to bring him back to the real world?? Why was he different?? I don't understand. There was also Evie's father who programmed himself in e.scape and somehow able to have control over the world? We have no idea how much control her dad had in this world which was strange. Evie had to go find her father to help save e.scape but why? I don't understand. (Evie's father is dead by the way and created e.scape so that Evie could escape from her unexplained miserable life). Unity was fine; s/he was an all-seeing being in the world but had to choose between ethical dilemmas? But why was Unity needed? Why could the father not have been the one who greets her in the beginning? If the world was made purely for Evie then why did they need Unity to greet people? Was her father expecting her to bring her non-existent friends? I also think Unity was suppose to be the knowledge dump and through her we get a glimpse of why Mallory is so evil but it stops there? No talking about feelings? No confrontation of any sort? Literally none of the characters understand each other.
I was hoping that as soon as Evie finds out the world has gone into shit, she would be the one who learns to program how to fix the world or something. But the whole time she just walks back and forth, sort of fending herself against these monster-zombie-not-real-people. I know she was suppose to find confidence and stuff through this journey but I just can't help but feel like this story was so under developed. Evie could have done so much more.
I have so many questions and ended the book feeling very unsatisfied and confused. It was a quick read but hardly worth that time. Joe could do better.