"The Game" of life that you want to win

    Part 3 of "The Game" Series written by Terry Schott. This book is a Scifi novel and in a Series of about 8 books now I will try to read most if not all the rest and do a review on them. Started second book today. Well I call this blog a book review, but I do more than just say weather I liked it or hate it. I give my version of cliff notes if you will and try not to spoil the ending of books for my readers if they want to read the book for themselves. Enjoy this book I really did can't wait to see what happens in next books called. "Digital Heretic" I post either a comment or a link to the rest of the series if anyone is interested. 

    

 The Game

The first image is I believe the original cover of the book and the second is what I just recently found.

   This book is very different and interesting and for anyone who likes the Hunger Games this could be a good read for you not in the fact kids are fighting each other but that they are all playing a game. 

   The Game is a virtual reality simulator created by Brandon Strayne on the planet Tygon. The Earth game life simulation was designed for children to replace traditional schools to teach them about life and the rules of reality letting them learn and make mistakes in the safety of the simulation. You go in at age 5 and the first 5 plays are free. After that, you have to earn credits to buy back into the game. If you can't afford to buy back in the player stays at home with parents and goes to regular school if you're under 14. If your older you become a ward of the state and live in a compound doing trained labor and discharged at age 18. This is an awful poor existence no one wants to be apart of was more like slavery, not school.

    Some of the top players in the games make a lot of money and have a huge fan base watching their gameplays which sets them up for a pretty good life as an adult. Zack is one of those players going from 700 to number 2 in the game after just one play. He met a girl named Alexandra.

    Alex was put into one of these so-called government schools which are not really schools at all. The kids have to do nasty manual labor like trash and sewer jobs get little food and places to sleep and bigger kids pick on younger and week. It is an awful situation for all but more so for Alex since she is labeled "Fallen".

    Zack goes back into the game his avatar's name is Trew Radfield and his former gf Alex is back in the game-born only a few months after him her avatar name is Danielle Benton. Their gameplay will change everything.

    Brandon the creator of the game and Zack parton has a group of people watching Zack keep him on track to snag the 1st place spot when he finishes the game. Brandon the creator of the game and Zack parton has a group of people watching Zack keep him on track to snag the 1st place spot when he finishes the game. 

    Brandon of course has a vested stake in the game doing well and having viewers on Tygon turn into his sponsored players. He has many secrets that most do not know like why and how Eternals operate in the game he also can communicate with the computer mainframe named Sylvia and they both are playing the game, well are they adversaries or allies no one knows.

    Trew and Danielle(Danni) at age of about 10 both find this used book called "The Game is Life" written by George R. Knight which just happens to be the last avatar Zack played as so they read the book and are convinced he is right that the Earth is just a simulated game us humans are all playing and somewhere out there people are watching us. So they put all their energy into trying anything and everything from karate to biology, various sports, meditation, prayer, and religious beliefs.

    They grow up into an adult and finally become man and wife they are so in love. Interesting fact Danni has learned how to meditate and Trew can not so he prays. Then happy news comes along Danni is pregnant but near the end, a sad thing happens she gets sick goes into a coma has internal bleeding, and loses the baby. She did not have any credits to spend on luck which apparently helps women avatars with being able to have healthy children.

 

   I won't give the ending away, but it does leave the reader on a cliffhanger so I have bought book 2 and when I am done reading it I will review it. Also for this book, I am going to do something I did with a few other books in the past. I will write a series of discussion questions and give feedback on it this book and I'm sure the series discusses many different aspects of life. Not sure right now if the discussion of book one will come before or after the one on book 2 it all depends on how fast I read the next book and how long I decide to make the discussion questions. So I really enjoyed this book it one of my favorites. I hope you all will like it too. Stay safe out there and wear your mask. 

New post about 3 book titled "The Game" by Terry Schott

I am currently rereading the last "The Game" story by Terry Schott in my 3 part series and this is the best of the 3 books about life being like a game. The story blows my mind and makes me think like us controlling a Sims character. I'll try to have the next post out mid next week. I hope the blog name change has not confused people and you stop being able to find me. As always like subscribe and leave any comments you have about my blog. Thank you.

"The Game" Kyle has to save Tara.

    The second book titled "The Game" written by A. J Carella was published on September 12, 2013. 

    

Disclaimer Parental guidelines some of this book content is not suitable for kids so anyone under 18 beware. 

The main guy character in the book is Kyle was once a cop then-lover died he got fired trying to find her killer and now works for gangster type guy as security. Boss got invite to the exclusive game. This Poker Game is where Tara the main character is the prize for the winner. She basically is a high-end prostitute. She was sold by her mother at age of 14 to pay a gambling debt.

    Kyle's boss wins the poker game and treats Tara badly by beating her up and being rough during sex. Kyle is asked to look after her for the day and they get caught making out. Kyle gets fired and Tara sent back to London where she lives. Kyle is distraught and needs to find her. Tara gets punished by her boss for messing around with the help. 

    Kyle is a former cop who had some dirt on his boss and blackmails him to get money so he can get into another poker game where Tara is the prize. Kyle ended up losing the game but followed Tara and the guy who won.  and ended up kidnapping her or rescue She finds out in a text from her former boss that he child she had when she was 14 was not dead, but alive. She is grief-stricken since she was told her baby girl died and now finds out she alive and 14 yrs old.

    Kyle and Tara are living their lives as best as the can in L. A one still haunted by the death of his wife and unborn baby other by the news her daughter is alive and she will never see her because if she returns to her boss Sergio she is trapped forever. 

    Kyle is too distracted with finding his wife killer and he does not know Tara has been getting texts about her daughter. She decides to plead with the former boss to take her back and let her daughter. He has no plans of allowing Tara a hooker anywhere near his daughter. He brings Tara in to be punished by being a prize in another poker game, but the guy is playing for change to be the first guy to be with Tara, not the sole winner.  Kyle finally found out who his wife killer was and took matters into his own hands, but it came at a price since he kept it from Tara. She left to go find her daughter without his knowledge when he got home and found the note and her gone he was very upset, but could not go after her since he been shot and had to heal since he could not go to the hospital. Meanwhile in London Tara was being informed she would never see her daughter and she had to pay for leaving by being the prize in the next poker game. 

    Needless to say, this story has a happy ending for most of the main characters and the bad guy gets what he deserves. I will not spoil the ending encase someone wants to read the story for themselves.

So all in all this was a good book I give it a 3-star rating it had some twist and tragic parts is really a story about how one girl gets dealt an awful life and manages to turn it around and get her happily ever after.