What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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The Eye of Minds
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SOLVED. YA Science Fiction/ Dystopia trilogy. Very similar world building to Ready Player One. Read around 2017-2019. Spoilers ahead. [s]
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Kate (Feathered Turtle Press) wrote: "Gamescape: Overworld?" No, sadly not it. There are only two books in the series and the one I read was definitely a trilogy. The plot is also different, but it's pretty weird how so many books can have a very similar premise.
Catharsis (Awaken Online #1)by Travis Bagwell ??
Aparajita wrote: "Catharsis (Awaken Online #1)by Travis Bagwell ??" I don't think so. At first I thought that might be it because the name of the MC, Jason, seems familiar, but after reading the plot on the fan wiki, it doesn't seem to match up.
Maybe "The Eye of Minds" series by James Dashner?
Nachelle wrote: "Maybe "The Eye of Minds" series by James Dashner?"YES THAT'S IT! thank you so much!
Title of the book(s):The Mortality Doctrine series (1st part: "The Eye of Minds") by James Dashner
What's the Name of That Book???
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After hearing some details about the RP1 story, the characters and specifics don't match up, but the world building still seems quite similar (the main difference in the setting is (I think) that in RP1 the world is breaking apart and people escape to the game to not think about reality (sorry no idea how accurate this is have not watched or read it) and in the series I don't remember the name of, society seems not to have any major problems (at least before the book starts).
More details about the plot:
The main character is a teenage guy living mainly alone, because his parents travel a lot for work. They're relatively wealthy and he has a maid/babysitter that takes care of the apartment and cooks for him (but she doesn't live in it permanently).
The guy plays this very popular immersive game (the setup for which is described as "upright standing coffin" looking, or at least that's how I imagined it). In it he has two best friends, a girl and a guy, all of the three use avatars that don't exactly look like them in reality. From what I can remember, the characters are modders and access the game code to gain game currency or access restricted areas.
The main plot of the first book revolves around either the creator or a very established player of the game hiding a treasure inside of it. To access it you need to go through trials to prove that you are worthy of recieving it. From what I remember the treasure has been either hidden for a few years, and no one has been able to find it, or the hunt has just been announced.
Basically the guy and his friend want to find it, the only specifics of the trials that I can remember are; them having to mod themselves into a club, while taking on fake identities to talk to someone, them having to find a portal to a different part of the game in a mini game that simulates something like the civil war(?) and (nearly at the end of the trial) them meeting a guy who lives with a bunch of animals (he might have been the game master?), it's also insinuated that he went insane and even though at first his house seems peaceful later on there's some dark secret connected to him (again my memory of this is quite blurry).
Something, that I can't remember, happens and the main guy gets contacted by a secret agency to help them with something (this might have been in the second book already). I forgot most of the other plot but at some point the MC visits his friend who's a girl at her house and they run away together because of some type of danger. There's also some talk about people who get forcibly put in the game forever and if they try to leave it they die (their bodies might have been used as a power source of some sort, but I'm really not sure about that).
I stopped reading the series because in the middle of the third book the girl either gets killed, nearly killed and put in a coma or permanently placed in the game and it turns out that the MC had romantic feelings towards her which causes him to want to avenge her death or something. For some reason that really annoyed me because I hoped there could be one Y/A novel without a romantic plot, but I guess I was wrong. So I just stopped reading and returned the books.
More context about the book in general:
Cover: standard Y/A futuristic dystopia cover, every single part of the trilogy had a different coloured cover, all of them being bright, nearly neon, purple, pink or blue. The cover was an edited photo, not a illustration.
Where I got it from: my previous school's library.
Language: I read the book in Polish, but I'm almost 100% sure that it was translated from something in English. The characters names all seemed to be english sounding and even though I don't remember the names of any cities or places, I'm also pretty sure that they seemed to be set in a English speaking country (obviously there's a chance I'm remembering something wrong and the book might not have been originally in English).
Length: Each book was around 300-350 pages long.
Hardback or paperback: paperback.
I'm not terribly interested in reading this book, but after seeing how similar it is to RP1 and not being able to remember it's name, I just can't stop thinking about it. I've looked at so many articles titled "Similar books to Ready Player One" and I just can't find it anywhere, even though with some slight modifications it could count as RP1 fanfiction. Sometimes I just think that I'm going mad and I hallucinated this entire trilogy, because the more I look the less hope I have. My sisters currently attend the school that I used to go to and if I won't be able to find the book on here I'll somehow break into their library and find this thing that has been making me unable to sleep at night, after the covid situation is over.
So please, if you've ever heard of and novel that sounds like this, tell me and keep me from committing crimes.