I’m not even going to pretend that I know the gamer gabble (yeah, that’s not a real thing… I made that up) because I really don’t. It was the sound of a million video game players hissing at me all across the globe.

I was a bit wary of reading Erebos at first because I thought it sounded a lot like Ready Player One and while I really enjoyed that book, there’s only so many things you can do with a book about video games, right? Thank you for including us, in all our varied incarnations <3 Both books are FANTASTIC in their portrayal of gamer girls - I especially liked the ladies who populate Erebos. Kind of the opposite of the nostalgia trip that was RP1. The easiest way to describe this, I think, is to call it a darker, creepier, more current Ready Player One. Poznanski weaves everything together, and by the final third of the book, you're just waiting for the other shoe to drop and all the pieces to fall into place. well, let's just say I would've smashed that disc into a zillion pieces the first time it told me it knew I was lying about my real name. And then when things really start to overlap between gameplay and real life.

But really this game reminded me the most of WOW, probably because you're able to pick which race/gender/occupation your character has - that is, you can be a dark she-elf mage, if you like (one of my preferences, incidentally, the few times I ever played). I'm not one of those big MMORPG people - my ex was absolutely addicted to WOW, and if I still talked to him I would definitely slap him upside the face with this book because he'd drool over it too - but I'm back to needing a Fable fix. I got SO sucked in by the time the game itself started picking up speed and lemme tell youĮrebos freaked me the F*CK OUT. I wasn't overly keen on this in the beginning the writing came off as stilted, I assume from translation, and things aren't always consistent - it's set in London and yet the characters say things like 'sixth grade' and 'Mom' rather than Mum, but whatever. Not sure whether to be tickled about this or not.Ĥ.5 stars, rounded up because I'm on such a book high right now that it's ridiculous. 12Feb16 update: Ha! The copy I ordered from Thriftbooks (because I NEEDED it) turns out to be an ARC.

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