Ready Player Two

A Novel Ready Player One, #2

by Ernest Cline

Hardcover, 384 pages

English language

Published Nov. 23, 2020 by Ballantine Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-5247-6133-2
OCLC Number:: 1268205880

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(7 reviews)

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

Days after Oasis founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday's vault, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the Oasis a thousand times more wondrous, and addictive, than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle and a new quest. A last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize. And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who will kill millions to get what he wants. Wade's life and the future of the Oasis are again at stake, but this time the fate of humanity also hangs in the balance.

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MJR_Librarian@bookwyrm.social reviewed Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (Ready Player One, #2)

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.

jp 👾 reviewed Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline

Review of 'Ready Player Two' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Content warning ☢️ Spoiler ahead!

In summary: Sword Art Online plot plus San Jupinero

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

Review of 'Ready Player Two' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

Ready Player One was epic, this one is pretty dull

ranok@bookwyrm.social reviewed Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (Ready Player One, #2)

Review of 'Ready Player Two' on 'Storygraph'

No rating

Awful

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

OK Read

3 stars

Isn't as fun to read as Ready Player One.

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

Review of 'Ready Player Two' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

More dead-on 80's nostalgia packaged in an entertaining story that pays homage by name to darker predecessors like Strange Days and Brainstorm.

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

Review of 'Ready Player Two' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

So gut der erste Teil war so schlecht ist der zweite. Spannung fehlt, viel Blabla und die Handlung ist naja. Man hätte mehr aus der Grundidee des Buches machen können. Es wirkt sehr erzwungen.