Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

A few days ago my son told me he wanted to see Ready Player One over April vacation.  I have a personal rule to always read the book before seeing the movie.  I took this out for my son to read.  Not only did he read it in one day, he said I would really like and to read it as well. While it's not going on any of my all-time favorites lists, I did enjoy it and am looking forward to the movie.

A rich gamer legend dies and leaves his fortune to the player who can crack his clues and Easter eggs (side note: listen up kids, gaming Easter eggs have been around a lot longer than you think; us old folks played games with them too....MANY years ago).  First one to solve the final puzzle wins.  Every gamer wants to win, but most importantly beat a power-hungry conglomerate.

Imagine trying to find Willy Wonka's golden tickets inside a virtual Escape the Room inside an even bigger virtual Escape the Room.

Definitely a quick, enjoyable read.

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Obsidio by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

WORTH. THE. WAIT.

My son and I pre-ordered this the moment it appeared on Amazon.  Months and months of waiting.  We had to buy two because he and I could not agree which one of us would get to read it first.  Mine is now being donated to the WHHS LMC.

You most definitely need to read Illuminae and Gemina to understand this, the finale of the trilogy.  I reviewed Gemina here, but Illuminae I read for other purposes.  That being said, it did not make a final list somewhere on a technicality.  It might be on another list which will be coming out May 1st.  Infer what you will.

There is so much happening in this non-traditional novel.  Just like its predecessors, the story is told in journal entries, video transcriptions, court records, drawings, photographs, and the sort-of conscience of a murderous artificially intelligent computer system, AIDAN. 

AIDAN, for lack of a better phrase, kills it in this book.  It's amazing that a computer system can be this developed as a character.  Like ugly-crying inducing developed.  And although not a cliff hanger, the door is open for AIDAN to maybe appear again somewhere.

Find this on display with our new books next week!

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One Of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

Hi there! Yes, it's been quite a while since I've written a review. While I've certainly been reading, a lot of personal stuff has gotten in the way of sitting down to write reviews.  My father-in-law is currently in the hospital, so prayers/kind thoughts/healing vibes are all appreciated.

I have to say I LOVED this book.  5 high school students are in detention together.  A small fender bender happens in the school parking lot.  4 of the students and the teacher run over to the window to see what happened.  The 5th starts having an allergic reaction to something and dies.  It is determined someone put peanut oil into his cup.  All the Epi-pens are missing from the nurses' office. So, who did it?

Told in alternating viewpoints (which I'm typically not a fan of, but in this case works), the reader must try to figure out who hated Simon the most.  Simon ran a gossip website, and all of our suspects have appeared on it.  Even more damaging, each has a post in Simon's draft folder and they start posting, after his death.

I don't want to spoil too much here, but I can honestly say I was WAY wrong on my guess.

Our water business has funded two recent orders, so find this on display next week with the other new books!

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