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Bezig met laden... Endgame (Voluntary Eradicators, #1)door Nenia Campbell
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) Stacie-C | May 9, 2021 |  Endgame was a crafty novel - we can literally see the author's mind turning, creating this hauntingly new futuristic world. The plot, at first, sounds like some sci-fi/dystopian novel we might have read before, maybe a movie we had watched? We have a heroine, her past shrouded in mystery, with a bloodthirsty edge to her battles in the virtual yet realistic games. A hero who seems to hold the key to said heroine's past but his own is an enigma. The bickering relationship with a hint of deja vu on the heroine's part (as we are inside her head mostly). Throw in a conspiracy making the games more dangerous than before and the only person she can go for answers is the aforementioned hero. Sounds cliche, right? Nope. If there is one thing Endgame is not, that is cliche. Refreshingly original with a gripping plot Endgame is a book that will keep you guessing. And you will probably be wrong as I was but in a completely good way. Despite the cleverly disguised info-dump in the first few chapters I was confused for the majority of book about the world and the way it was supposed to work. I think it took me solid 40 pages to get 'into' the story - which given the length is almost a third of it but once I did - I. WAS. BLOWN. AWAY. Literally. The premise - Holy SHIT - was so interesting I didn't even blink until I got to the end. The plot - alternating between real world and the VR games - was AhMaZiNg. I was still thrown off from time to time and my mental timeline for everything was kinda screwed up (*winks*) but I was totally sucked in. And the characters - Volera and Catan were definitely interesting and mysterious and the third person narration helped build this sort of separation of the reader from the person and trying to figure them out as we read the book. Needless to say - that really worked for me. I did feel a few of the secondary characters were not that well defined and insta-friendship, though less painful than insta-luurrve, still grated on my nerves. Sometimes it felt the plot was moving too fast, sometimes too slow. I did enjoy the buildup of tension between Volera and Catan. The brownie points, though, go to the game scenes. The action scenes - Campbell definitely knew what she was doing. Apart from few wayward typos here and there I didn't have much problem with the overall writing in the book. The ENDING though - That Was BEYOND WORDS. Just imagine me, sitting up on my bed, Kindle in hand, 3 AM in the morning (night?) chanting a slew of expletives that could still not explain the outbursts of emotions in me. Yeah, it was - THAT GOOD. I am definitely keeping my eyes, ears, brain, Kindle, heart everything open for the sequel. I can't wait to see where this goes next. (  ) shayanasha | Apr 5, 2013 | Not that it matters in this instance as I found the world that Campbell created to be very accessible and it didn't fall into the wrong side of techno-babble at any point during the story, which was a major plus point in my book. The main characters were well-rounded and interesting enough to keep me guessing throughout. Although I did feel that a couple of the secondary characters were a bit less defined, but that didn't matter that much as the characters of Volera and Catan were intriguing enough without the extra padding as it were. The fight scenes were excellent, and the story was compelling. Overall, a nice start to a series and I probably will be checking out the sequel. ( ) polkadotshark | Apr 5, 2013 | Not that it matters in this instance as I found the world that Campbell created to be very accessible and it didn't fall into the wrong side of techno-babble at any point during the story, which was a major plus point in my book. The main characters were well-rounded and interesting enough to keep me guessing throughout. Although I did feel that a couple of the secondary characters were a bit less defined, but that didn't matter that much as the characters of Volera and Catan were intriguing enough without the extra padding as it were. The fight scenes were excellent, and the story was compelling. Overall, a nice start to a series and I probably will be checking out the sequel. ( ) polkadotshark | Apr 1, 2013 | Not that it matters in this instance as I found the world that Campbell created to be very accessible and it didn't fall into the wrong side of techno-babble at any point during the story, which was a major plus point in my book. The main characters were well-rounded and interesting enough to keep me guessing throughout. Although I did feel that a couple of the secondary characters were a bit less defined, but that didn't matter that much as the characters of Volera and Catan were intriguing enough without the extra padding as it were. The fight scenes were excellent, and the story was compelling. Overall, a nice start to a series and I probably will be checking out the sequel. ( ) polkadotshark | Mar 29, 2013 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Volera Magray is a Player: she engages with the tourists who come to play the VR games for which her district is so famous. She makes her living being pitted against other Players in terrifyingly real virtual reality games, fought for the gratification of a hedonistic audience.Fighting is all she knows.By day, she is a normal denizen of the oppressive Regency, but by night, she is wracked by terrible nightmares that hint at a past she can no longer remember. She suspects she might have killed someone-and she's afraid that she might do it again.At the same time, the games she's playing are growing steadily more violent. Someone is hacking into the system and creating bootlegged games. Dangerous games. Deadly games. Games that tell a story of profound corruption and massive-scale government conspiracies, warping the lines between fact and fiction.The only clue she has comes in the form of an exceedingly frustrating and potentially dangerous man named Catan Vareth. But, like everything else in her world, his help will cost her... Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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