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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
2.75
adventurous mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book is such a man book. I don’t know how else to say it. I didn’t hate it but almost every moment of it felt like a teenage boy was telling me about this intense video game fantasy. Which I guess is the plot anyways so it did what it needed to do there. But for me it just felt super annoying at points, particularly any of the “romance” portions, and especially the reveal of H. It was very in your face “women can do anything!” In a way that a woman would never actually want to be written about. 

The strongest part of this book was its world building and the evil sixers. It worked. But there is something so silly about a man that dies and wants to leave his money to someone good but puts no rules or regulations on how to win said money so an evil entity could realistically receive it. Like… donate it? Idk it’s hard to suspend reality for this fake billionaire that made stupid choices and was clearly a dick to everyone and gave his fortune to whoever could successfully study him the most.