Author: Terry Miles
Pages: 432
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date: 10th June 2021
Blurb from Goodreads:
What happens in the game, stays in the game...
Rabbits
is a secret, dangerous and sometimes fatal underground game. The
rewards for winning are unclear, but there are rumours of money, CIA
recruitment or even immortality. Or it might unlock the universe’s
greatest secrets. But everyone knows that the deeper you get, the
more deadly the game becomes – and the body count is rising. Since
the game first started, ten iterations have taken place... and the
eleventh round is about to begin.
K can’t get enough of
the game and has been trying to find a way in for years. Then Alan
Scarpio, reclusive billionaire and alleged Rabbits winner, shows up
out of nowhere. And he charges K with a desperate mission. Something
has gone badly wrong with the game and K needs to fix it – before
Eleven starts – or the world will pay the price.
Five
days later, Scarpio is declared missing.
Two weeks after
that Eleven begins, so K blows the deadline.
And suddenly,
the fate of the entire universe is at stake.
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My Review:
*I received an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Thanks to Pan Macmillan and NetGalley*
There is a game called Rabbits that no one is supposed to talk about. Some people think that the game is used to recruit for the CIA, others that winning will make you rich, or that the underground game can become deadly if you get too deep.
K is obsessed with Rabbits and gives talks on it. One day, Alan Scarpio, a billionaire who supposedly won Rabbits in the past, appears asking for K's help. He claims there's something wrong with the game.
Then Alan goes missing, the eleventh iteration of Rabbits begins, and it has the highest body count yet.
Can K fix the game before it's too late?
When I first read the blurb for this book, I was intrigued. It ended up being quite different to what I expected, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but on this occasion, it ended up being a mixed read for me.
There are some books where after reading them I'm left feeling that I don't know much about the protagonist. This was one of those books. K was a character who I felt sorry for, but I didn't really care that much about what happened to him.
My favourite characters were probably Chloe and Baron, but I can't see them being characters that will stay for me for a long time.
The plot started off well, but around 60% of the way through I began to lose interest and the book dragged for me. I think it could have been 50-100 pages shorter than it was.
The concepts and science were interesting.
The writing style was easy to follow, but I wasn't invested in what was happening.
Overall, this was a mixed read.
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