There's a reason this book has bad reviews - it's bad. It was a DNF for me at 8%. I was hopeful I would like it, but I just didn't at all. Marked it as DNF and won't review it as to not give it more bad reviews, and I don't like leaving reviews for books that I read less than half of.

This is one of the first VR novels that I read and it completely got me into the genre while it isn't on the same level as novels like Warcross, Otherworld and Ender's Game, it does have it own unique world and charm that really draws the reader in.

DNF @11%

11% in and I still have no idea what I was reading. I literally just went through a information dump, but feel like I learned nothing. How are people stuck in the virtual world? If everyone is in a virtual world how do they have children? How does Ekko not remember anything remembers other things randomly? And why did he pop up in the middle of a fight and win it???

I was more than confused. I still am! I was willing to trudge on a little farther, see if there were anymore options (I'll get to this), but then it switched POVs to the cyberman! That was too much. I lack so much information on one character, now I'm being throw to a different character on the "bad side" and feel even more lost.

I put the book down. The one thing exciting about this book was the 'choose your own adventure' feel to it. It is more of a pick the right answer or die --so far, but I was truly interested to see how books besides Goosebumps would do it. Unfortunately, I only got to see one option played out before I gave up :(

So, not for me. I do think others who don't mind the confusion and want to see how the options play out will enjoy this much more.