I was definitely not disappointed at all in this sequel to the book OtherWorld. In fact, I enjoyed it a bit more, giving it a 5 star rating instead of the 4 stars I gave to the first one. There was so much action in this book. All the bad guys we knew from the last one were still out there, searching for our heroes, and while some people had been rescued from the first book, others will still out there, waiting to be found. We had some new allies in this one, both inside Otherworld, and outside in the real world. Some of these allies were there only out of convenience for themselves, such as the Russian Alexei. And then there were the Children inside the game, fighting for their lives against the guests in the games that had come in just to kill them. They were not going to trust Simon or his friends easily. They'd been betrayed before by others like them. The world inside the game was slowly changing, almost decaying, as time seemed to speed up inside and more and more of the Children and the other NPCs in the game died or were killed.

I loved Elvis in this one. He was a hoot. But I never quite could trust Busara, and with how things ended, I'm not quite sure if I was right or wrong, mostly sure that I was right not to trust her. There were so many twists and turns, and with Simon starting to see thing from the game outside in the real world, it was hard to know just what was real. The twist at the end made me doubt so many things I'd read and taken for granted as I read, just as Simon assumed as he raced along in his mission to save his friend and allies, and shut down the Company once and for all, before anyone else could be harmed, including the Children.

There was a major cliffhanger with this one, and I don't know how I'm going to wait until next fall to read on. While I'm not so sure I'd want to go into this world as the game changed anymore, there were still things that would be very interesting to at least try.

Another great science fiction story for anyone who enjoys video games, virtual reality, and the like. I could see this as a great movie series, or TV series even. Who can get the word out to the SyFy Channel that they should check it out?

This review originally posted on Lisa Loves Literature.