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The Warped Forest

Gamemakers Online Series, Book 1

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The Warped Forest

By: Thomas K. Carpenter
Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
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Could you defeat the world's hardest immersive game?

Alexandria Duke must learn how to or risk losing everything.

When Alex joins Gamemakers Online, she finds there are no newbie areas, no tutorials, and nothing but vicious critters hunting her down. This seems like an impossible task, but Alex is a veteran platinum achievement hunter who has solved previously unwinnable scenarios. She won't give up now. As she delves deeper into the game, she discovers it hides sinister secrets. If she can't survive the first year in Gamemakers Online, then she'll lose more than her own life.

©2019 Thomas K. Carpenter (P)2019 Tantor Action & Adventure Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction
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The book starts off with the premise you know what the world is like so they put no thought into world building, they just added random elements like 'its a world just like ours, that has new york and such. Yet it also has a magic system - but to use it without going 'mad' you need to go to university/hundred halls. Yet again the magic system has a game system operated by a random black obelisk. yet science has advance advanced to have fully interactive VR and with all these advancements the US still doesn't have universal healthcare.

The story itself operates in cycles. They try to make the main character a victim at every turn so that they can then power her up on the next story beat, even the supposedly sad moments on retrospect don't seem so bad considering the outcome.

spoiler - I bet that even the cancer she transferred from her mother will turn out increasing her faze or whatever. Also the supposedly selfless act of letting the 2 bats go will proberbly end up helping her out as well.

Its pretty bad that the raven can randomly come up with a boon ruining the balance of the game anyways - which is why I hate gods and prophecys in books. It should only be used as a last resort and not a way for the author to clean up his mistakes out of hand. The other option wasn't even considered because the author has already planned a direction for the book to go.

Predictable and boring.

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