Rabbits (Rabbits #1) by Terry Miles

"This was a true Rabbit hole of a book, filled with pop culture references, theories about parallel universes and many other mind bending twists. The beginning had real potential and there were definitely parts where, like Alice, I found myself murmuring, "Curiouser and curiouser." By the end though, I'd lost interest as the narrative/characters became repetitive and overdone."

⭐⭐

Pros: Miles has a quick, sardonic wit that was fun to read/K is relatable in his anxieties and eccentricities.

Cons: I started losing interest when the multiverse got involved and there were magic lines you could use to travel through time/It all became rather repetitive by the end/K never stopped asking the most asinine questions again and again.

Full Review:

There's a secret game that exists in the world. It's shrouded in mystery, darkness and danger and only those who are intimately familiar with the dark web and conspiracy theories seem to know anything about it.

It's called Rabbits and though theories abound about winners, losers and the consequences of playing, that doesn't stop people from being obsessed, including K.

One night, during a presentation that K holds for like-minded gamers, there's a man in the audience who keeps asking questions about one of the past winners, Alan Scarpio. It turns out the man with all the questions is Alan Scarpio and he admits to K after the presentation that something is wrong with Rabbits and he needs his help to solve it.

Of course, after this strange, clandestine meeting, Scarpio mysteriously disappears and K throws himself down a Rabbit hole of clue after clue to try and figure out what's going on with the game and Scarpio.

When more people start disappearing and even worse, dying, K can't stop even if he wanted to. He needs to find out what's happening since, as Scarpio said, if they don't fix the game, then the world is in for a very unpleasant time.

The beginning pulled me in, since it had an interesting, Ready Player One by Cline meets "Hackers" feel and there were moments that were tense and exciting. K's memories of his childhood, the death of his parents and the fact that he keeps randomly losing minutes, if not hours of time, had me intrigued. Once the multiverse got involved though and it became one obscure reference to some philosophical theory/debate after another, my interest waned. In the end, it became painfully repetitive and rather tedious. What started out promising ended up being drawn out and overdone.

This was one Rabbit hole I was glad to climb out of.

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