The Eye of Minds

Some what interesting premise, horrible execution. The world is confusing, the plot is nonsensical and the characters are flat. They three heroes are generic hero kids that don't even feel believable. The villain is a basic mustache twirling antagonist that fails to come off as anything more complex. Failed to keep me interested.

a solid 3 star book until the end and it took a generic turn and now its a boring 2 star read and now i'm not interested in reading the second book anymore so...

really disturbing for a YA book released in the early 2010s.. like oh my god

I can't say too much for fear of spoilers. If you liked The Maze Runner, and are over about age 12, you will probably like this story.

The fast pace of the action makes this one a real page turner. You are fully absorbed as a teenager in a virtual world. Are you going to survive the challenge?

I just dropped the book one day and never finished it. Why?
Because I got bored sincerely. I think it has the same faults as the maze runner series, it just lack something which makes you really care about the characters and what happen to them.
You have great ideas in this book but it just didn't work for me.

It's a good story and an easy read. My main complaint is nothing really happens until the last 50 pages, so it takes a long time to get through, and I'm not overly motivated to read the future novels.

3.5 stars

This is a hard book to rate. On the one hand, the story is fantastic. I have always wanted to read something like it. On the other hand, a lot of things seemed familiar from other books I have read, and the writing was bad. Ever since I read the first book of the maze runner series, and seriously, James Dashner bores the shit out of me. He doesn't know how to write. Some stuff seem random. And I roll my eyes more time than I can count. Buuuuuuuuuuuut.... I am really excited to read book two. I loved the ending.

So up until the end I was really skeptical of this book. I was frankly disappointed since I had read the Maze Runner series and had loved it for its innovative plot and interesting characters. Reading the Eye of Minds, I found myself first confused by the simplicity of plot, the straightforward dialogue, and the confusion it brought about that this just seemed like one adventure after the other á la Indiana Jones with no explanation about why any of this was supposed to make sense or matter. I will not spoil the novel, but if you were like me: lost and confused by the lack of a cohesive story, then wait it out. It's coming and the payoff was worth the ride to get there.

Really enjoyed this fast-paced take on a virtual reality thriller. It had some similar themes to Ready Player One, but completely different execution and feel. I liked RPO a lot more, but I'm definitely psyched to continue with this series.