The Stats
📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: Rabbits
AUTHOR: Terry Miles @tkmiles
Publisher: Del Rey Books @delreybooks
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐢
Published: June 8, 2021
The Review
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- First off, this cover is amazingly gorgeous, I can’t stop staring at it. Second, this book sounded like a Ready Player One-esque book.
💜 What I liked:
- This book was a trip. Half the time you don’t really know what’s happening but the ride is completely fun and wild. I was totally ok with not being fully satisfied by the ending.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- Sometimes the explanations were dense, but that’s to be expected with a sci-fi fantasy novel. For me, I just took it as a plot point I didn’t have to fully understand.
💁♀️ The Characters:
- K, Chloe, and Baron are playing the game of Rabbits. But no one is supposed to speak of the game. And people are disappearing and being killed.
🚦 My face at the end: 🤓
💭 5 Reasons to Read:
- The ride is wild and keeps you guessing
- There are real world examples you can look up to see what is real and what is not (Ex. the Fremont Troll)
- You find yourself rooting for mostly everyone
- Even if you don’t like sci-fi, this can be accessible
- Rabbits (IFYKY)
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.
📘 Summary:
Conspiracies abound in this surreal and yet all-too-real technothriller in which a deadly underground alternate reality game might just be altering reality itself, set in the same world as the popular Rabbits podcast.
It’s an average work day. You’ve been wrapped up in a task, and you check the clock when you come up for air–4:44 pm. You go to check your email, and 44 unread messages have built up. With a shock, you realize it is April 4th–4/4. And when you get in your car to drive home, your odometer reads 44,444. Coincidence? Or have you just seen the edge of a rabbit hole?
Rabbits is a mysterious alternate reality game so vast it uses our global reality as its canvas. Since the game first started in 1959, ten iterations have appeared and nine winners have been declared. Their identities are unknown. So is their reward, which is whispered to be NSA or CIA recruitment, vast wealth, immortality, or perhaps even the key to unlocking the secrets of the universe itself. But the deeper you get, the more deadly the game becomes. Players have died in the past–and the body count is rising.
And now the eleventh round is about to begin. Enter K–a Rabbits obsessive who has been trying to find a way into the game for years. That path opens when K is approached by billionaire Alan Scarpio, the alleged winner of the sixth iteration. Scarpio says that something has gone wrong with the game and that K needs to fix it before Eleven starts or the whole world will pay the price.
Five days later, Scarpio is declared missing. Two weeks after that, K blows the deadline and Eleven begins. And suddenly, the fate of the entire universe is at stake.