Mike

I love Blake Crouch and wanted to dig more into his older books from before Dark Matter. I was worried this wasn't going anywhere but the last 50 pages really take a turn. If this were much longer I think it would drag a bit but that ended up not being the case. It's well suited to a film adaptation and I'm interested in seeing it in that format. Super quick read if you're a Blake Crouch fan and want more of his stuff.

I definitely enjoyed this more than All System Red. Not a lot happens, but I found the overall story and vibe of this one a lot more entertaining than the first.

I really enjoyed the first two books and this one was good but not great. I know there is a preface at the beginning of the book saying that the layout of all the train lines and stations doesn't matter all that much, and I would agree with that, however there are still lots of station numbers and train lines thrown around and it requires more mental processing to grok whats going on than I would like from a fun LitRPG book like this. I'm still most interested in the outside of the dungeon parts and hope future books spend more time exploring that.