The Marvelous follows three teens who have been invited through a social media app to the wealthy young founder's home for a weekend retreat and find themselves in the middle of a giant puzzle. I stumbled across this book while I was still in a book hangover from The Inheritance Games, another YA puzzle-based mystery in a mysterious mansion, and this was the perfect read for after that. I loved the descriptions of Golden Rule, and the explanations of what each character got out of their online interactions felt very true to life. I also really enjoyed the characters, particularly the three point-of-view characters and their separate stories. Each one had very real concerns about what was going on in her own life, but the story managed to stay relatively light and fun despite that. The wordplay puzzles and the interpersonal interactions both got to shine equally. Overall, this was just a dishy, fun read that will find a lot of fans at my library.

I really had a lot of fun with this book! I love books filled with quests and puzzles and trying to keep up with the characters in order to "help" them win. I really loved the 3 main characters, Luna, Nicole, and Stella. They were all unique and developed well. They all played off each other well. It was very similar to Ready Player One, but different in a way that is appealing to a different demographic that can connect better with how the game works. That is not to say that adults would not enjoy this book; i did! I have a feeling this book will be very popular once it drops.