Review: Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
Thank you Random House for this gifted copy!
Publisher: Random House/Audio
Publish Date: November 24, 2020
Hardcover - 370 Pages
Audio - 13hrs 47min
Series: Ready Player One #2
Genre: Science Fiction
My Review:
I LIKED IT!
Ok y'all. I have MAJOR love for Ready Player One so while a part of me was like WHY WITH A SEQUEL?! I was also equally YAY WITH THE SEQUEL! *high jumps, confetti, SQUEEE* And of course, since I loved RPO so much that I recommended it to everyone I knew who I thought would like it and as such, got a ton of feedback from people who read this before I did and were.... well, they were underwhelmed to say the least. But NOTHING will stop me from reading a book I had already planned to... but I did decide to go the audiobook route because now I can listen to them AND HELLO WIL WHEATON. I may have a nerdy little crush on him.
Look, with the popularity of the first one, I knew this would probably be met with a lot of criticism. And I'll admit that I had issues with some of the social commentary but did appreciate what he was trying to do and the diverse cast. I love video games but AI scares the dingleberries out of me. I don't know if I'd want to be downloaded. Would you?? We get a bit more of the same from the first book and that's what I loved. Keep giving me books with adventures and a game to solve. (That's why I loved the first two Hunger Games books and then it went all political and blah.) Now, there is a lot of info dumping done that I'm not sure was even necessary and as a sequel, I would've preferred not having to be reshown into a world I am already aware of.
HOWEVER, I had SO MUCH fun with this book. **snoopy dance** Was it you, Wil Wheaton? - kudos to his narration because he was EXCELLENT. I loved the references to all the things and it made me, again, remember my childhood, want to rewatch all the Hughes movies and put on some Prince. I was still rooting for all of them and was satisfied when it was over. While this may have been an unnecessary sequel, I was happy to be back in the Oasis.
★★★☆
I can't wait to dive into this one and meet Wil Wheaton!
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