Jake Williams

I love this book.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think, yeah, because I think the visual of like, if you're not into gaming and you think about what that looks like, I think I would picture like headphones on, very screen time, quite solitary.

And then I think this made me think about all the things about it that are so creative.

Love the 90s vibe.

So there are kind of quite distinct parts of it.

There's a really sad thing that happens in the middle, which unusually for me did not make me cry.

Okay.

I will cry at anything, but this one didn't quite get me, I think because I was so invested in Sam and Sadie and their story that any of the other characters and what happened to them was like a little bit to the side for me.

Is that heartless?

Yeah.

That's how I felt.

And I know some people didn't love the last third.

I loved the last third.

The last bit is where you are.

It's all set within the world of a game.

And so that just felt so different to anything that I'd read.

It's like a free roaming gameplay within this kind of like Western society town.

And I thought that was so fun to be in and know it was a game the whole time and know that someone was playing those characters.