Benjamin

I just want to love these books so much, but I continue to muddle through each one subsequently more and more confused.

Maybe the fourth one will clear some things up. 

Video game-centric books are always a hard sell for me, an avid gamer. Usually the forced references made to help non-gamers understand the book and events come across as cringey. While this still happened a fair amount during my read, by the end it was certainly less.

Very much a Hitchhikers style story with a videogame theming that I'm excited to continue. 

I found this one slightly less enrapturing than the first. Overall it moves the characters and world forward, however I don't really feel like the main character is growing towards a better place and instead seems to mostly be along for the ride.

That said, it's still a great entry in the series and a powerful narrative led by a strong, broken, genuine female. That alone is reason to pick this one up.

Honestly pretty disappointing, but at least it doesn't over stay it's welcome.

Don't come here looking for a mystery about aliens a la Contact. More of a political drama with some pretty childish adults.

I honestly hoped the lies of the main character would take more center stage. Instead it's mostly a thrilling set of circumstances that happen to Locke outside of his control and with very little smart responses from him.