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I'm going to start off by saying I'm a huge Death Note fan. The series is really well thought out and I love the characters! But I promise I'll remain spoiler free in my posts. Light Yagami finding the Death Note is the beginning of a chain reaction throughout the whole world.  From the beginning he doesn't hesitate to start writing names in the book, and continues even after he realizes that the notebook really works. With that sort of power anyone would go a little crazy, and for Light it starts showing very fast. "I am righteous!... I'm the savior who's going to be like a god of this new perfect world!" (pg. 70). Light thinking of himself as a god is scary, it makes you question whether he's really doing good or not. Meanwhile Ryuk seems to care less what Light is doing and finds the whole ordeal entertaining. Ryuk  is kind of a character that's easy to overlook, but his role as kind of watching over Light is important, he's the on...

Aech is actually a girl! Out of everything that has happened throughout the novel I think this may have been the biggest surprise. Usually when such a big plot twist is revealed an author will sprinkle in foreshadowing throughout the novel, but Aech's true identity was hidden very well. I'm glad that Cline threw in a little bit of diversity to his cast of characters in this way. A giant battle wouldn't be complete without massive anime-robots. As the end of the novel grew near,  my anticipation heightened immensely. Cline's description of the scene was thorough enough to help me picture the battle against the Sixers easily. "Every feature of the original Japanese mech had been re-created, including its giant gleaming sword and spider-web embossed shield," Just the description of Parzival's robot Leopardon helped me visualize what was going on easier. I am impressed by Wade's character development by the end of the novel. By sharing the prize of ...

150 pages later, the plot of Ready Player One has picked up fast. After the beginning of the novel took a while to develop setting characters, I'm glad that we've been able to dive into the storyline. That being said, one of the main plot points we're introduced to is Parzival and Art3mis' relationship. As far as relationships go, Parzival and Art3mis are pretty cookie cutter. Parzival's long term crush reciprocates his feelings and everything seems perfect. Until Art3mis decides that he's getting in the way of her hunt for the egg. After this is when we finally see some emotion come from our main character. So far Wade hasn't shown much strong emotion towards anything besides finding the egg so I was glad to see that Wade was genuinely upset when Art3mis said she didn't want to be in a relationship. I think that seeing his character develop is important to me as a reader because before this point in the novel it was hard for me to relate to him as h...

99 pages into Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and I feel like I've been bombarded by the 80's. For a dystopian novel, Ready Player One seems to have more references to the past than the future it is set in. I'm impressed by the amount of research Cline must've had to do to find specific dates and titles for the novel. After my initial 80's culture shock I thought a little bit harder about the main character and narrator Wade (Parzival). His status as highly intelligent gunter is valued only by his close friend Aech, mainly because he doesn't have the money to level up his avatar. Social class is valued within OASIS just as it is in the real world which is unfortunate for Wade who can't afford to use his knowledge to its full extent. The idea of having social classes within a virtual reality doesn't seem too far-fetched nowadays considering that some video games already use ranked systems and extreme gamers take their ranking or level very seriously. ...