I had the opportunity to review read Permadeath by Miguel H. Villarreal. This book was released the 2nd of December.

I really wanted to read this one after I've read the description, it just wheeled me in. I enjoy reading thrillers, this being a bit different than what I normally read since it revolves around a game and a streaming community.

We're following Marcus in this story, a guy with way to much debt trying to climb the streaming ladder so he can live of the donations fans make. I have to say, the beginning threw me off a bit.. About a fifth of the book is about Marcus and his problems, him trying to reel in people for his streams and him online gaming / streaming and paying an obscene amount of money to get one on one sessions to learn how to get more viewers in stream.

After getting chosen to advance play a game with 7 other streamers the story really takes of. You only get to die once in game, so.. Permadeath. You don't get a second chance and parachute back in game. In fact, you die? The software will be deleted like it has never been there.

After the first to deaths in game, things get interesting.. The "losers" keep on streaming, but something about those streams seems off. Are they really streaming still? Is there a glitch? Is it AI?
Finding out people are really being eliminated in real life if they lose the game, Marcus runs.. He and another streamer will both be getting to the bottom of this.. But, will they survive? What will happen along the way? Find out!

This was decently entertaining. A little too gamelit for me and some of it felt a little YA. I loved the concept of the story though