Book Review - Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline

4.25 / 5.0

Is 'Ready Player Two' as good as the 'Ready Player One'? 

 Of course not. But that's really not much of a crime, as I find It's a very rare sequel that is as good as the original. The novel has its flaws, mostly the mid-story slump that feels a bit samey-samey, and though the stakes are high, I didn't often feel that the characters felt the fear of failure. 

 But 'Ready Player Two' recovers well in the final stretch, and this, for me at least, partly earned back the ground lost because of the earlier flaws. 

 Overall 'Ready Player Two' is worth the read. It's good fun to share the page with the same crew of folks we learned to love in the first book.