The only thing that let this book down for me was the often occurring contradictions of the writer, mostly in the "lever room" scene. I love all the references to Minecraft, and often found my self laughing out loud thinking "Yup, we've all done it!" The story was very engrossing, the surroundings very well described, and at times, i found the whole setting very eerie (what with the whispering and the re appearing enderman) The underlying story of this novel is very dark, which is not to my usual tastes, but this story is so well written, that it didn't put me off.
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I wasn't really sure how to rate this book, but i decided with 4 out of 5. I suspect this book is more appropriate as at least a grade 9 book, or grade 7-8 with parental permission? I haven’t given you the finer details, in case you want to read the book. Thankfully, the story goes forward and wraps up things in a -they all lived happily ever after - fashion. I found the end a just a little too drawn out. No details are given, so a naïve reader wouldn’t know what to think nor have visuals. And on pages 94-95 my jaw dropped open and I was shocked. But then the plot twists and actually had me somewhat riveted and intrigued. One of the main characters disappears, which I hope means something but I have to go back and figure it out.Īnyway, at this point I was thinking that a mature topics warning label might be needed on the book. But then as the story goes forward the author sets up a possible schizophrenia scenario which is well written. The main characters find themselves inside the game (kind of). The story starts out like most Minecraft stories. There is some use of the words “hell” and “damn” and one instance of “shit”. The language and character depth is noticeable. This book is clearly written by a stronger author than other Minecraft books. The beginning is intentionally confusing and once I got through the first couple chapters I was glad the author took the risk. There is a some serious content for the target market age. oof) it’s handling of mental illness and trauma probably would have made my own worse to deal with. If the content was handled better I probably could have given this 5 stars, but I don’t think I can just from the fact that if I read this when I first brought it in 2013 (6 years on my shelf. The actual text was easy to read and obviously the writer is very skilled. Technical aspects, though, it was well written. Also felt the topic of mental illness in kids was uhh, handled very poorly. And while I know kids do deal with these as legit issues with CSA and being exposed to violence/etc (I speak from personal experience) I feel that the way the book handled this was from the perspective of an outsider and the mature topics were not handled in an age-appropriate manner.
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I would say it would be interesting to preteen boys who don’t read much because they may not have been exposed to these same tropes as much as an avid or older reader, but I couldn’t recommend it be given to a younger reader because of the amount of uncensored swearing, plus the major overlying villain pretty much explicitly being an incestuous pedophile. The reader’s guess at the twist should NOT be more interesting than the actual twist, imo. The confusion and mystery of the setup was well done, but just throwing that all away for an overdone trope was disappointing. Was very disappointed because it had a VERY solid start.
Was not a fan of the “its all a dream” trope throwing away all stakes, and that combined with the “female character’s sexual trauma is only there to further male character’s plot and let him play the hero” thing they had going on made the last half of the book an absolute drag. Found it interesting until about 1/3-1/2 the way through, where the “big plot twist” was revealed and everything fell flat.
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