My rating: 1 of 5 stars
Ready Player Two is the sequel to the popular Ready Player One
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, 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.
Wade's life and the future of the OASIS are again at stake, but this time the fate of humanity also hangs in the balance.
So... it turns out Halliday added another stupid treasure hunt competition to his OASIS. One that only "An heir of Halliday" can unlock (I hope JK Rowling is listening to this bit). Also there's now an evil AI Halliday loose in the OASIS (I hope Avengers: Age of Ultron is listening to this bit). So it's now two years after the original story and Earnest Cline has managed to walk back every bit of character development he could. In fact the only things he didn't walk back are Aech turning out to be a woman and Daito being dead and I'm sure if he could've worked them in he would have. The new characters aren't anything to write home about either; they're either written so one dimensionally they may as well be a straight line or they are so utterly forgettable you need to constantly go back to remember who the hell they are.
The story isn't anything to write home about either...
It's not only predictable it's boring to boot. There is zero originality in this story... zero... and as Cline said himself back in 2017 he only wrote it as a cash in on the movie. So, yeah it ain't good peeps.
The only redeeming feature of this is Wil Wheaton's performance as narrator.
Do not buy this book.
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