Review: I give it 3 and a half stars
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 16, 2013
A really fascinating book that takes a philosophical view of life and makes it into a game. The introduction was amazing and I couldn't read fast enough to get all the facts in.Later those "feeds" at the beginning of each chapter got annoying and I started skipping them. Also I wished that the pace would pick up and get straight to the story instead of going through little incidents in early years of Zack's and Alex's avatars.Stephanie and Raphael are two characters that got me confused at the beginning as they were not introduced to us in any way. Not as gamers nor as avatars, so we have no ideas who they are and what role they're playing. But it gets explained later, though we still have no idea what Stephanie's dreams are all about.I'm a little disappointed that the main story seems to be what's happening on Tygon and not what's going on in the game. It would be much more interesting to read from the avatar's POV instead of the gamers. Looking from the inside out and not from the outside in so to speak. Seeing if the avatars reach enlightenment or figure out what's it all about.Because the story is written in that fractured way the reader doesn't really get any connection with avatars and it got quickly annoying. The ending of course is a cliffhanger.