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Ready Player One Review

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Hello guys and today I’m here to review Ready Player One by Earnest Cline, a book about video games,  virtual reality, and 80s references. It's the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune — and remarkable power — to whoever can unlock them. For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that Halliday's riddles are based in the pop culture he loved — that of the late t

Sparks Rise Review

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Hey guys and today I’m here to review Sparks Rise , a new novella in The Darkest Minds series by Alexandra Bracken! WARNING! THIS IS PART OF A SERIES SO PLEASE DON’T READ ON UNLESS YOU HAVE READ THE FRIST BOOK, THE DARKEST MINDS . THANKS! :) Sam didn’t think things could get worse at Thurmond rehabilitation camp. Then the Reds arrive. Everyone assumed the kids with firepower had been killed years ago. Instead they were taken away, brainwashed, and returned as terrifyingly effective guards. To her horror, Sam recognizes one of them: Lucas, the one spark of light in Sam’s dark childhood. Lucas has a deadly secret–he beat the brutal training that turned his fellow Reds into mindless drones. When Sam defends herself against an attack by a vile PSF guard and faces a harrowing punishment, Lucas must risk his everything to save her. – goodreads.com summery Rating This novella was AMAZING! Alexandra Bracken’s writing is just so amazing; it sucks you in on the first page and doe

It's Monday, What are you Reading (9/2)

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Hello everyone! It’s Monday again so you know what that means… it’s time for It’s Monday, What are you Reading? :)   So I’ve spent my labor day weekend on the internet, watching Netflix, and reading  Ready Player One  by Ernest Cline. I have also started  Vicious  by V. E. Schwab! So that’s what I’m reading… More importantly, what are YOU reading? Comment below and tell me! Or, comment and tell me if you've read Ready Player One and what you thought of it!