Review: SIMPLY BRILLIANT!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 19, 2014
A brilliant book- with the best elements from Tron and Inception mashed together!Rick Dial had everything. A family, a scholarship, a goal, and even a pair of legs. All of this- as of just five months ago? Gone. Like a poof of smoke. Wallowing in self- pity and unable to see what a world can offer to a cripple like him, he hides out in his room, playing pointless video games, literally waiting for lightning to strike.And then it does. A top secret anti- terrorist government organisation recruits him for the MindWar project- an imaginative realm, with the potential to wreak havoc on the real one. Crazy, right? If you’re in there and die, you soul gets forever stuck in the Netherworld- no escape, no salvation.Yet, for the first time in a long time, Rick feels some sort of purpose.  Agreeing, he enters a strange world, all aquamarine and yellow on a journey that will redefine who he is.The MindWar has a very cool concept and you sort of get how it works- very developed technology. I loved the way Klavan visualised the realm, along with all the creatures- both friend and foe inside.More than that, however, it was the characters that had me reading on and making me give this book 5 stars! With a little brother that just wants to see his older brother happy, a mother that doesn’t ask questions but understand all the same, a missing dad- that we find out actually does care and a brilliant imaginative world- MindWar is not something you should miss!