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A review by atdouglas
Backward Compatible by Sarah Daltry
5.0
You don't have to be a geek or gamer to love Backward Compatible. It's pure comedic entertainment for anyone who needs a great laugh. I was cracking up from basically the front end content before Level One all the way through to the last word. It was perfect hilarity. I LOVED it!
This book was unique and clever in so many ways. From the perspective of a gamer it kind of made me squee over and over again. Some of the references made me so happy I was literally gushing to my gamer husband about it, the guy who usually wants nothing to do with the romance novels I read. I found myself constantly showing him excerpts from this book, and I think he secretly enjoyed every single bit of it. I may even get him to read it someday. It's a high-level quest I may never complete, but I've at least accepted it!
As a recovering MMO addict I can relate to a lot of the story. Wow, did it bring back memories of long days and nights of grinding out levels and camping named and running seemingly hopeless raids on mobs we'd keep throwing ourselves at over and over until we'd finally beat them. It may be a shock to the rest of the world, but yes, there are people out there who live like this, and yes, they have a great time and meet fantastic people while doing it. They are the geeks and gamers of the world, and I'd like to think they're proud of it. I certainly am, anyway.~
Thank you Sarah and Pete for not being afraid to go there in this story. I love that you embraced your inner nerd to write this, from the plot to the characters to the acronyms to all the random references that make being geeky fun.
And it is fun. Just like this book.
Just do it. Don't even take time to think about it. Just click buy and read it so you can squee with me.
This book was unique and clever in so many ways. From the perspective of a gamer it kind of made me squee over and over again. Some of the references made me so happy I was literally gushing to my gamer husband about it, the guy who usually wants nothing to do with the romance novels I read. I found myself constantly showing him excerpts from this book, and I think he secretly enjoyed every single bit of it. I may even get him to read it someday. It's a high-level quest I may never complete, but I've at least accepted it!
As a recovering MMO addict I can relate to a lot of the story. Wow, did it bring back memories of long days and nights of grinding out levels and camping named and running seemingly hopeless raids on mobs we'd keep throwing ourselves at over and over until we'd finally beat them. It may be a shock to the rest of the world, but yes, there are people out there who live like this, and yes, they have a great time and meet fantastic people while doing it. They are the geeks and gamers of the world, and I'd like to think they're proud of it. I certainly am, anyway.~
Thank you Sarah and Pete for not being afraid to go there in this story. I love that you embraced your inner nerd to write this, from the plot to the characters to the acronyms to all the random references that make being geeky fun.
And it is fun. Just like this book.
Just do it. Don't even take time to think about it. Just click buy and read it so you can squee with me.