Summary
At 21 years old, Harry and Cristal are fresh out of university with their PhD’s. Labeled all their lives as being ‘weird’ and ‘geeky’, they find true friendships with other outcasts by playing online virtual reality games. Now they face the challenges of starting out in the work force, while at the same time trying to get used to their ‘adult’ identities. Harry Doubt, a genius programmer and creator of the popular online game ‘Truth Seekers’, has a personal mission of his own; to find his mother who went mysteriously missing while volunteering on a peacekeeping mission in Palestine. His gaming friends and followers inadvertently join in helping him find her; believing that they are on missions to find out what has happened to their own missing loved ones. During Harry’s missions, Cristal and the team of ‘Truth Seekers’ stumble upon things that make them doubt the reality of their own lives. As they get closer to the truth, they realize that there are spiritual forces among them both good and evil, but in learning this, they activate a chain of events that start the beginning of the ‘end of the world’ as they know it.Review
The description for this book intrigued me, but that's about where it stopped. The characters were flat and had no growth, and there is no reader attachment. The story idea is interesting, but it falls short. When you think the author is going to zig, she zag's. The story seems all over the place, and sometimes it is difficult to see if things are happening figuratively or realistically. Strange things happen in the story, such as a character dying, and since there is no reader attachment it doesn't really matter. It finally gets somewhat interesting at the very end and then you're left with no answers.
Note: I was provided a free copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
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