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Ready Player Two
- A Novel
- By: Ernest Cline
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday’s contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday’s vaults, waiting for his heir to find it, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous - and addictive - than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest - a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize. And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who’ll kill millions to get what he wants.
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Heartbreakingly Disappointing and Insulting
- By Marcus Haynes on 11-28-20
- Ready Player Two
- A Novel
- By: Ernest Cline
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
A depressing continuation
Reviewed: 07-17-23
Will Wheaton gives a stellar performance for what turns out to be everything Ernest Cline wasn't able to squeeze into Ready Player One. The plot meanders around a new *groan* game from Halloway which offers further insight to his personality and what was probably the most incel-centric manner. The pacing is clunky, the characters are flat, the writing is well done drew. The story works between Parz3val"s obvious lack of knowledge of women and Halloway's creation and the attempt is obvious and almost painful.
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The Golden Enclaves
- The Scholomance, Book 3
- By: Naomi Novik
- Narrated by: Anisha Dadia
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
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The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll do when you get out. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. But it’s all we dream about: the hideously slim chance we’ll survive to make it out the gates and improbably find ourselves with a life ahead of us, a life outside the Scholomance halls. And now the impossible dream has come true. I’m out, we’re all out. We saved everyone. So much for my great-grandmother’s prophecy of doom and destruction. Ha, only joking! Actually, it’s gone all wrong.
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Absolutely stunning
- By Tori on 09-28-22
- The Golden Enclaves
- The Scholomance, Book 3
- By: Naomi Novik
- Narrated by: Anisha Dadia
Scholomance Finale Doesn't Disappoint
Reviewed: 10-06-22
Novak's writing flows so effortlessly that I can't feel but want more. The conclusion of this series kept me listening well into the night and cursing the need for sleep. The worldbuilding, story and characters are excellently brought to life by Dadia's perfect pitch flushing out every detail and voice with precision and eloquence. I haven't anything but praise for this work.
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The Invisible Ring
- A Black Jewels Novel
- By: Anne Bishop
- Narrated by: John Sharian
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
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Jared is a Red-Jeweled Warlord bound as a pleasure slave by the Ring of Obedience. After suffering nine years of torment as a slave, he murdered his owner and escaped - only to be caught and sold into slavery once again. The notorious queen who has purchased him, known as the Gray Lady, may not be what she seems. Soon, Jared faces a difficult choice: his freedom, or his honor.
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Save Your Credit
- By Tango on 03-16-14
- The Invisible Ring
- A Black Jewels Novel
- By: Anne Bishop
- Narrated by: John Sharian
A great sife-story in the Dark Jewels saga
Reviewed: 02-24-22
This was excellently constructed and executed. A mad dash story that had enough twists to keep me guessing until the end.
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Off to Be the Wizard
- Magic 2.0, Book 1
- By: Scott Meyer
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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It's a simple story. Boy finds proof that reality is a computer program. Boy uses program to manipulate time and space. Boy gets in trouble. Boy flees back in time to Medieval England to live as a wizard while he tries to think of a way to fix things. Boy gets in more trouble. Oh, and boy meets girl at some point.
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Hang in there
- By Kelly on 03-04-17
- Off to Be the Wizard
- Magic 2.0, Book 1
- By: Scott Meyer
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
Yeeeaaaaahhh...
Reviewed: 08-30-19
First, I need to say that Luke Daniels did a phenomenal job reading this. Not once did his level of performance wane, and I honestly listened to the book all the way through just because of his enthusiasm and ability to shift into characters.
That said... This wasn't for me. Without ruining the plot, I'll just say that I didn't much care for the protagonist as a person, I found the hand-waving of plot devices annoying after a while, and the antagonist was... well, they were an antagonist alright... just not one that I found all that compelling.
Worst thing was trying to understand the character motivations: Either they were sidestepped or seemed rather flat, and that's if they made sense. Three characters (I won't specify who) I found incomprehensible. I kept wanting to tell them to just DO something else.
In all, the premise is interesting, but the execution was lacking. I didn't really care if the protagonist won, didn't completely disagree with the antagonist (even though Mr. Daniels made him thoroughly unlikable with his excellent narration), and felt that a few of the side characters were painfully dull. Philip was really what kept me listening, and even his actions towards the end were bewildering. The use of anachronism became less fun as the story progressed, so if you're thinking Ready Player One here, think again. Not that RPO didn't have it's issues as well, but that was far and above this work in just about every sense.
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