Review: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
I finished this book a few days ago and I have been a little indecisive about writing a review for it, because I must admit, that I don't have much to say about it. I heard people rave about this on Youtube, and I figured even though science fiction isn't really my favourite genre, I would give it a go. Just to step out of my comfort zone and maybe discover something new and exciting. The book is set in the near future, 2045 to be specific, and it centres around a young boy who takes part in a quest set up by a multi-millionaire. This multi-millionaire built a virtual reality world for people to escape the dreary actual world they live in. Before he died, he hid an Easter egg in the game and constructed riddles and tasks that people would have to solve in order to find this Easter egg. And whoever would find the egg, would inherit the virtual reality world and all his money. Wade, our hero, tries like everyone else to find this egg, and we follow along on his que...