The hype is real. Ready Player One has been talked about and praised by people I know for months now, and with the movie coming out, this seems like a good time to read through it and see what all the fuss is about. But did I like it? Well… I think so?

I’ve read quite a bit of Stephen King, but after reading all the way through The Dark Tower series, I felt like I needed a break. I’ve since read many other novels (most of which you can find here), but after getting 11/22/63 for Christmas from my mother, it seemed like a good time to jump back into the Stephen-verse. It took all of one page for me to feel like I was reunited with an old friend.

If it isn’t obvious by now, I tend to stay in the fantasy/sci-fi realm of fiction, but in between epic sagas, I like to squeeze in something completely different. I find it helps to break up the schedule, and I stay more focused if I’m not having to remember names, places, lore, history, and any number of other fantastical jargon EVERY time I pick up a book. A Criminal Defense slotted into that category for me, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth it.

I couldn’t not read it. I’m a completionist, I had to. Based on my other reviews, I thought it would be ok, but I was wrong.

The Atlantis World is the last in the Origins Mystery series by A. G. Riddle. The first novel, The Atlantis Gene, was fantastic and I really enjoyed it, the second, The Atlantis Plague, had it’s moments, some good, some bad. The finale though…