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River of Blue Fire (Otherland) (Bk.2)

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I bought this book based on the back cover and read it straight through. It was a very interesting book based on a virtual simulation created by using a mutant human brain to create unprecedented realism. The network hosts hundreds of "worlds." These worlds are the meat of these books and the author has put forth some very imaginative scenarios.
BUT this book is actually 1/4 of a book and you have to read all four as though they are a single volume. It may sound intriguing, but these are large books and by the end of the third book, I was tiring of the large amount of filler. Don't get me wrong, the characters are very strong, but much of these books I now realize I could have skipped entirely and not missed much at all.
Now that I have finished the fourth book, I have come to the conclusion that you may be able to get away with reading only the fourth book, since the author thoroughly summarizes the three previous books at the beginning of the fourth.
And actually in the fourth book, I really didn't get a feeling of interest or the customary "answering of the mystery" until the last fifty pages or less. I don't want to ruin it, but suffice to say that ending was anti-climactic to say the least.
So, if you enjoy slow moving reads where you really don't have much sense of what is really going on as the questions pile up, this may be your book. If I had to do it over again, I would not have bought this book, as interesting as the worlds are.
~J