Review: Game

Game by Anders de la Motte
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

So this was kinda terrible with a side of lost in translation.

The plot is nothing particularly new - dude finds a phone and it offers him the chance to play a game, which mostly involves real world pranks. Things are unsurprisingly not what they seem.

I've read this trope before and much better, to be honest. Firstly, HP is one of the most annoying protagonists I've read in this kind of situation. He's very much a loser - no job, living off welfare, drug problem, and thinks he's way cooler than he actually is - and there's really no reason you feel any sympathy for him. He doesn't seem to grow at all over the course of the book, and he's a jerk to the two people in this book who actually seem to care about him.

The Game itself is interesting at first but he's out after only a few events so the whole setup seems really pointless. Why go to the trouble? From the halfway point it's all about him digging into the Game and also some side story about his sister and her own trauma. But it drags on for so long and you can see where it's all going from a mile away. I got so bored with it.

The side story with the sister and the ex and that whole thing was so painfully obvious but at the same time made no sense. Like, how could that possibly have been a predicted outcome. HOW.

It's also clearly a terrible translation, with strange words and basic spelling errors.

There's just so very little action for a book that's supposed to be about a game. Normally this kinda story is fast paces but it was so dull. I was glad to be done with it.

Not even slightly interested in the sequel - I'm actually shocked they got a trilogy out of it!

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