I find it hard to believe that over 8 years have flown since I picked up and devoured ready Player One. I loved it, and although the movie was different, I enjoyed that for what it was too. I have reread One at least once a year since and was truly excited for the release of book two.


I finished Two and, although not as thrilled with it as I would have liked, I think that would have been hard to match. As a sequel, it moves the story on in a very clever way (the ending in particular was great). I did feel that the 12 hour timespan throughout the books’ main action was a little too artificial and everything bot a bit squished, and of course it’s hard to reinvigorate a topic you’ve trod heavily over in a first story. And Prince, yech.

On the plus side our hero grew believably and had a lot to deal with, “all sunshine and rainbows” seemed to be the order of play at the end of One and it’s … reassuring, I suppose, to note that wasn’t exactly the case. The tech progression was great, the sheer variety of problems facing Humanity was quite over-the-top and dramatic, and old enemies were a little hard to swallow. By and large though, I’m glad I picked up the sequel.

I don’t know what Two will do to my enjoyment of rereading One I’ve just done so ready for this book so I guess I’ll find out next year.