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Sep 02, 2022
Joy D
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Intelligent and motivated young people start a tech company, including idea generation, game development, teamwork, and personal interactions. The title brings to mind the idea of playing a video game again and again and dying over and over. It is well-written with complex believable characters. I very much enjoyed the first half, but I think it loses its way toward the end by including an unexpected twist and lots of melodrama. I also think it is too long. The whole Pioneer section could have b
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May 28, 2023
Alexandra
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Words escape me... The amount of hard work and research the author put into this odyssey of a story is absolutely incredible and tangible in the tears and gasps it induced page after page. I was always in some state of emotional whiplash. What a cast of complex characters given such tender nuance to allow their personalities the room to unravel, as well. This was written with such care, there's no way it isn't deserving of anything but 5 stars even if I had some hang-ups (really, just that some
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Man, I really wanted to finish out 2022 with this book. I missed it by a couple of hours. This was a fantastic book. I loved watching how Sadie and Sam's relationship evolved over the years and how they continued to dance around each other building worlds together, yet separately. I loved seeing Marx enter the picture and become such a critical part of the unit. This was not a cliche, happy ever after kind of book. It was so authentic. It was painful to watch how miscommunication and misundersta
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