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Ernest Cline: Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2) (2020) 4 stars

Ready Player Two is a 2020 science fiction novel by American author Ernest Cline. It …

Oomph... This was just painful

2 stars

This book was, well to put it bluntly... this book was just bad. It felt like horrendous fan service and nostalgia pandering. It somehow managed to make characters we actually cared about in the first novel not only one dimensional, but entirely forgettable and/or unlikeable. The plot was unhinged and felt like a loosely rewritten copy of what happened in book one, only with a few edits.

I'm being generous with two stars. Wish I had skipped it.