Devastator

The Warp #2

by Jason Córdova

"Gamer girl beats Ready Player One." Brian B., Internet Reviewer The Warp is perfectly safe, its creators claimed. After the events which took place one year before, the last thing Tori Adams wanted was to go back into The Warp. She enjoyed college and the challenges it brought. She had no desire to set foot into the virtual reality realm ever again. Life moved on, and The Warp changed for the better as improvements were made. The Nexus was a new login realm that allowed for gamers to avoid being stuck in-game for too long. The alpha testing had gone fine, but when the open beta testing began for the Nexus, it turned on—and stayed on. Nobody could explain it, and WarpSoft did everything in their power to shut it down. Unable to investigate from without, they asked Tori to go back in to find out what was keeping the Nexus online. She’s convinced it’s nothing more than a computer glitch. WarpSoft agreed with her, but… What if something—or someone—far more dangerous was behind it? There was only one way to find out.

322 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 10, 2018

About the author

Bestselling author Jason Cordova is both a John W. Campbell Award and Dragon Award finalist (though not in the same year). He is the author of Mountain of Fire and Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever (w/ Larry Correia), and editor of Chicks in Tank Tops and Dancing with Destruction.

Along the way, he has had novels published in multiple languages around the world, been featured in over 40 anthologies, and has penned over two dozen novels across many genres, including YA, horror, science fiction, and urban fantasy.

A history nerd, he is a Navy veteran, former teacher, and is currently an Associate Editor at Baen Books.

Reviews

[John Davies · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh my!

I've been waiting for this book since 2010, when I read the first book in the series, "Corruptor" (Recently re-released as a second edition) And it has been soooooooo worth that long wait. Jason has taken all my expectations and blown them out of the water, into space and beyond! What started out as a story about Tori, a gamer who just wants to play the game for fun, but has to save thousands of gamers lives when terrorist hackers take over the game, has evolved

. She is asked to re-enter the Warp, the Virtual Reality where gamers can battle others across worlds, to investigate why the Nexus, a new safety feature encountered when logging on, has suddenly started working on it's own. In her investigations, she stumbles across the terrorist Gargoyle, the one who got away in the first book. After several encounters, she faces off with him in a final battle, where she defeats his avatar, and discovers his true purpose for being in the game.

The world is in for an unexpected surprise, and they're NOT going to like what's coming! I'm so glad that the next two books are being released this year, because another 7 year wait would be truely (pun intended) Devastating!

[Travis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent story, some interesting twists in this one, though there's also a whole pile of predictable results, but interestingly enough, that doesn't detract from the enjoyment of the story. There were several times I found myself yelling at the characters for missing opportunities, but that's part of the fun isn't it?
Gamelit fans will love this one, and many scifi fans won't want to miss it either.

[E. Linda Upton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Started in the middle- again

An interesting read that fills in context as needed, but you really should start with book one. If you liked Ready Player One, or The Adolescence of PL1, you are in the right place.