Skip to main content

The Best Book I've Read Yet... The Game is Life Series Review


 Why am I stuck writing book reviews? 

Anyway, here's the review for the series the Game is Life:

WARNING: CONTAINS (slight) SPOILER

The Game is Life is a special series unlike any other book I have ever read. It's got just the right amount of thrill, technology, romance and deeper meanings, all without boring the reader. The whole book is packed with the motif of people saying "The Game is life" and conspiray theories. 

The book is about a reality called Tygon, which has servers hosting Earth, which is the reality we live (or according to the book, play) in.  On Tygon, it is reffered to as The Game. Children use The Game to educate themselves, and, as a decade in The Game is a week on Tygon, is able to gain multiple lifetimes of experience. 

SPOILER STARTS

















Then, we realise that there is another world, where there is a power-hungry general wreaking havoc in order to keep it. A person called Samson Thorn then developed Virtual Reality. Not the silly headset type, mind you, but real, immersive VR that transefers your very consciousness to another world. He then sends five uncannily smart children into a 3-week simulation, only that it feels like 30 years inside, to think of a way to stop the general from destroying his world, called the Dream by the children as they spend so little of their time there.

The series is packed with gory action and deep, dark implications, and is overall a series that is surprisingly children-friendly. I would recommend it to anyone who likes a dark and thrilling read. 














Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Another Review... A Christmas Carol Review

For many, just seeing the name “Charles Dickens” on the cover is enough to send them far away from anything to do with it. But ignore the label screaming “DANGER OF DEATH: DAHL”S CHICKENS DETECTED”: A Christmas Carol is different. It is lightly humorous and very easy to read, as well as having Charles Dickens’ style.  The Christmas Carol is about a miserable man, Scrooge, who hates Christmas and helping the poor, transforming into the exact opposite as he is visited by three ghosts. The first one reminds him of his past relationship, which ended when his greed overtook him. The second shows him how everyone else celebrates Christmas merrily, and then  the third foreshadows what happens if he does not change. I especially like the way the language is ingeniously put together. The way he creates moods so immersive and real seems like pure genius, but when observed closely, you find only common techniques like listing, similes and metaphors, just extended slightly and used with t...
1 comment
Read more

The Great Depression of 2020: Real but Silly Tales Known as Reality

God seems to have a destructive and equally twisted sense of humour. In ancient books,films and propaganda, 2020 seemed to be another word for a complete utopia. The truth couldn’t be more wrong. The would-be Mars settlements and flying cars have been re-shaped by cold, stark reality into millions of dead bodies, piled up on an incinerator, ready to be forgotten. The dreams and hopes we had have been crushed by a tide of crashed economies. Twenty-twenty would have been perfect just safely locked away in just another ludicrous dystopian book written by just another ludicrous idiot with just another ludicrous idea. Only that the book happened to be real, and we find ourselves in this: a time where strange stories surface and bitter books of pure disaster are real. So people say.  2020 seems to stink of mouldy disinfectant. One of my friends’ mum insisted on scrubbing everything that came through the front door like a madman at least three times with disinfectant wipes before consider...
1 comment
Read more

Into the Void Pt. 1

Into the Void - Part I - Innocent Beginnings Foreword Years ago, I wrote a “short” story about a time traveller who travelled around time, firmly ignoring the most fundamental laws of Physics and generally making a mess, which he then has to clean up. I called the series the extremely infuriatingly long name of “The Mysterious Black Box”. I was 3 parts and 9000 words in when I stopped and did not continue further. Now, almost four years later, I set out again to finish it, this time giving it the more bearable name and one that’s hopefully more suitable for any time that’s not the 1800’s. As the first two parts and the unfinished third part were lost, I started again from Part 1, gradually remembering the plot and how bad I was at the time, as I wrote until my keyboard broke. Literally. And then I fixed it and wrote more ranting words from a madman. Here is Part I. The rest, when and if I do them, will be uploaded here after I finish if I do. Now, to the actual thing itself.  *** T...
2 comments
Read more