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reviewed Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (Ready Player One, #2)

Ernest Cline, Ernest Cline: Ready Player Two (Hardcover, 2020, Ballantine Books) 3 stars

An unexpected quest. Two worlds at stake. Are you ready?

Days after Oasis founder James …

Review of 'Ready Player Two' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Obviously, a sequel can disappoint a person since there are such high hopes after a great first part. This one does not do that. I liked it! It has what one would absolutely expect - a quest with many parts, moving around the Oasis, and lots of pop culture. But it doesn't just redo the same story from the first with different movies or video games or something. It gives us a new story, with a new moral and new lessons. And the lessons are very apropos to the world today. Well, they would be anyway, but seems even more so with the pandemic, related economic issues, and protests such as BLM. Definitely some good stuff here!

5/31/23 - like it a lot more the second time around - the last chapter bugged me, but other than that, yeah, liked it even more! :)