Review: A great thrill ride - enjoyed this one very much
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 17, 2013
The basic idea of this book reminded me of such sci-fi classics as "Westworld" by Michael Crichton (about people who end up going on a joy-ride through an android theme-park that turns from paradise to horror), and even the very successful "Jurassic Park" novel (enough said).In this book, people are offered the ultimate joy-ride experience where they experience life and death fantasy adventures. Just as in WestWorld where the main characters have to travel to a real theme park which has a Romanworld, Medievalworld, and Westworld (where they can live out their ultimate fantasies - sex, gunfights, you name it), the gamers here take a portal to another planet light years away from Earth.As with all these "too good to be true" stories, things start to go wrong, and, boy, do they go wrong.What I loved about Craig Askham's take on this story was his freshness of style, his modern interpretation of computer gaming, and the way he manages to grasp the reader's attention in wanting to know what happens next.Yes, it will take you a little while to get to grasps with this new world Askham presents to us, but once you settle in, it is a marvel of a joyride not only for the characters in the story, but very much for the reader too.Craig Askham pulls of a really nice futuristic novel that I really found quite enthralling. Encore, Mr. Askham, you've picked up yourself a fan!