I recently read Ready Player One by this author, and it was really good, despite being basically a giant gamer fantasy. (I am not a gamer, and usually find those sorts of things kind of lame.)
This book was also a giant gamer fantasy, but it was not nearly as good as Ready Player One. However, it was not completely lame either. The characters were good and the story turned out to hold together rather well, but I thought it had too many fantasy battle sequences, which I would unfortunately call lame. Have you seen that scene in "The Big Bang Theory" where Leonard, Sheldon, Raj, and Howard are all playing a fantasy game together?
There were a bunch of scenes like that, where the reader is supposed to think these dudes are cool and saving the world and all, but really I just kept picturing a bunch of nerds in some basement on their laptops.
Besides that, this was a good book. And if you're into gamer stuff, you might not even have to skim those parts...
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