Audiobook – Audible Junkie

If 2020 wasn't already bad enough, the highly anticipated sequel to Ready Player One turns out to be a dud... Ready Player Two is the sequel to Ready Player One. It essentially picks up where the first ends but quickly skips forward through a handful of years via a summary of events from its main character, Wade Watts. Wade, who was lovable, charming, and funny in RPO, is now famous worldwide and rich beyond belief in RPT. Unfortunately, this has changed him for the worse as he is now rude, whiney, and insufferable. As one would expect, he is joined by the usual gang from RPO. RPT lacks all of the magic of RPO. It had countless directions it could have taken but instead chose another 'Easter Egg' hunt with a mysterious prize with the OASIS again at risk. Cline attempts to make the st...

I was not prepared for this to be so damn good... Unless you've been living under a rock, you know about The Hunger Games Trilogy. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a prequel that takes place roughly 65 years beforehand. Its main character is a young Coriolanus Snow. If that name sounds familiar, it should. Coriolanus Snow is the villainous tyrant President of Panam in The Hunger Games. Here we discover his backstory. While it was easy to root for Katniss Everdeen, the heroine of the trilogy, I found it much more difficult to root for Coriolanus. There were moments I loved him and moments I wanted to scream at him. It's the main reason why I enjoyed it so much. It felt like a bit of a character study to me. One that had themes of deception, ruthlessness, violence, and teenage lo...