![]() ![]() Three days in jail and no word, no help? I am a father of 5 and I don’t care who told me I couldn’t leave, I would have been home with my kids, consequences be damned. ![]() Did I say parent issues? Can Bagwell honestly expect me to suspend my disbelief that Jason has such absentee parents that they don’t come to their kid’s aid when he has been arrested for murder? Even if, as they explain, couldn’t get there immediately, they could have made sure that the kid had legal representation to keep him from self incriminating. Also, her background is very similar to Jason, she doesn’t fit in, only friends are in-game, and she has extreme parent issues. Had she been more enmeshed in the group it would have felt like she was going to be a recurring character or a new group member. Like she was just there to give the readers a taste, because she really didn’t do a lot in the battles other than just kind of back people up. Also, I have to say that this felt like one of those TV episodes where they want to start a spinoff, so they sent a star off to some new place for an episode, where they meet a really interesting group of people and then go back home and never talk about them again. Otherwise, it is just because of plot necessities. It makes no sense, unless you say that this is all a part of Alfred’s plan. Jason basically goes through 23 hours worth of book trying to earn an upgrade in power, Alex fails miserable for the same length of time, and still gets upgraded. Not only does he get everything handed to him in real life, but even in the game, at the end he gets advanced for no real reason or effort being put in other than to keep him apace with Jason. He should have been a villain that lasted for one book and then got swapped out for someone with real teeth. Self entitled, self centered, egomaniacal bullies can be fun. Oh, and I for the record, I am tired of Alexion. Move on, and the dev took forever trying to gather her clues. Secondly, the subplots, one involving Alexion/Alex and the other involving the Dev trying to find out about Alfred were broken up and spread out to a point where I said, “I get it, Alexion is a complete D-bag and he has evil machinations. I honestly don’t know if Bagwell wants a certain page count or book length, but here it comes across (to me) as rambling and drawn out. For me, the whole sequence was just interminably long. Here however, the Hippie trials seemed to take on a Twilight Zone style life of their own, trials that I found not to be very interesting nor entertaining. I have no problem with long run times, heck I listened to Galaxy Outlaws: The Complete Black Ocean Mobius Missions for over 85 hours and was entertained the entire time. I mean this book could have used some serious trimming. I don’t mean there are grammatical errors. First of all, the book is in some serious need of editing. I say this, just so you know where I’m coming from. I know there are authors out there who don’t want to release anything near one of his books. I think that Bagwell is a writer’s writer, someone other writers respect and look up to and I give him full props for his scale of excellence that he inspires. I’ve got a few things to say about this book, and I want to get right into it. Can Jason and friends do it? Man the ending left me dying for more!! Get this BOOK!! Narration is amazing as always!! It seems the future of the world and how humans will continue to exist is also hanging in the balance. It seems Jason is being attacked from all sides! Jason has his hands full between Alex, thugs, police, lawyers, government workers and an ever evolving AI named Alfred. Things continue to pick up speed if that’s possible in both worlds as alliances are made and the stage is being set for an epic fight not only to conquer AO, but to keep friends alive including artificial ones. His enemy Alex is unfortunately doing his best to keep up and take Jason down in AO and in the real world, if you read the previous book you know. Jason and his 2 friends are now traveling afar to finish the big quest and answer some questions about the old races that used to populate the AO world. I love this series and am amazed at how it continues to build on itself and. ![]()
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