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Endgame (Voluntary Eradicators Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Nenia Campbell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Volera Magray is a Player: she engages with the tourists who come to play the VR games for which her district is so famous. She makes her living being pitted against other Players in terrifyingly real virtual reality games, fought for the gratification of a hedonistic audience.

Fighting is all she knows.

By day, she is a normal denizen of the oppressive Regency, but by night, she is wracked by terrible nightmares that hint at a past she can no longer remember. She suspects she might have killed someone—and she's afraid that she might do it again.

At the same time, the games she's playing are growing steadily more violent. Someone is hacking into the system and creating bootlegged games. Dangerous games. Deadly games. Games that tell a story of profound corruption and massive-scale government conspiracies, warping the lines between fact and fiction.

The only clue she has comes in the form of an exceedingly frustrating and potentially dangerous man named Catan Vareth. But, like everything else in her world, his help will cost her...

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November 13, 2012
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00A743OUW
Publisher ‏ : ‎ (November 13, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 13, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 397 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 215 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1481030248

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Crystal Starr Light

First half was rough, but second half made it all worth it!

Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2013

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First half was rough, but second half made it all worth it!

Volera is a Player; she helps provide entertainment for the virtual reality games that are hugely popular. But she can't remember her past, and strange occurrences, nightmares, and blackouts make her think that a particular guy has an unhealthy interest in her.

Trying to define my feelings towards this book is tough. The first half is so dense, so confusing, so slow. It really is pure world-building. I'll admit, more than once I grew frustrated at this book. "I want to like you!" I would yell at it. "Why are you being so confusing to me?! Why can't you just give some answers?!"

But this book reminds me of "Dune" in that regard: you're reading it and wondering, "WTF is going on?!" When suddenly, the clouds part and it JUST MAKES SENSE. It takes a long time, but when you get to that point, the light bulb turns on and the book pages fly by.

And that is my experience with this book. I got past that 50% mark and suddenly, I got it. I got the characters. I got the story. Even the cultures and society which had been a stumbling block were making sense. That is what picked this up from a 3 star to a 4 star.

This book won't be for everyone, but if you like cyber punk and don't want drippy heroines, this is your book.

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Linds.

Just made me a gamer...

Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2013

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I'm to lazy to find a gif of someone waving their fist in the air because that is what I want to do right now to Nenia!

Really!?

REALLY?!

That's how we are ending it!

(starts to ugly cry)

Just when I was feeling smart, that I kind of sort of figured out about 1/4 of it before I got to the last 99% of the book, and then WHAM! Just kidding its OVER!

I'm gonna pout. For about a week its gonna take me to get over this. I think we might actually have a male antihero that isn't, I daresay, crazy????

Or are you gonna twist us all up in knots?

I like knots, they are fun, and they make you breath a little harder, and bite your nails fearing you will never escape.

If I am being perfectly honest, this was another great book. I hate info dumping world building that makes the first book in a new series sound like a manual to "This is how we build our sci-fi world 101." It was smooth, it sort of layered itself out. I think the characters were created in a way to sort of explain what is really going on, without explaining it. If they were too three dimensional you would get more upset.

Can you tell I'm trying not to spoiler?

This was a gratifying read that made me laugh my butt off when I got to the end and realized no matter how much I pushed the next page button on my kindle, it wasn't going to magically turn to the next page.

I feel bad for Vol, I feel bad for Catan--and I even cried a little. Yes, yes, it is true. In those last few pages my heart was tugged and slashed at and I felt so horribly bad that it made the story even better.

So, if you are a follower of my reviews, and you haven't read any of Nenia's books yet, you will notice I gave them all five stars. That means they are awesome--and you should read them!

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Inge

I've read it twice now

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2016

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Still as great as the first time around. I remembered absolutely nothing so I felt like I was reading it for the first time again, which was great. I got to be blown away by the last few chapters again. This series is so promising!

Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2013

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Ms. Campbell, writes a good story. The quality is better than most of the kindle "freebies". I have an interest already in gaming and I was curious as to where she would go with the idea. This is a good introduction to her series.
Positives - interesting concepts and storyline
Negatives - there are many positions (weaver, designer, player, etc) that are mentioned but I felt could use more flesing out. I realize that maybe the author was advised to edit out some of the back story to move things along. Maybe these were left on the cutting room floor.

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Miranda

So the story follows your main character Volera aka Vol and she's this really snarky character which I loved, nothing to me spel

Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2014

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So this book was very interesting to say the least, took a bit of time to finish due to getting book crazy. But I did it!
And lets just say WOW... I'll admit in a few spots I was a tad irritated and confused lol
But that probably didn't help that I was getting a tad confused on who was who a few times, just due to some side characters were mentioned then you wouldn't see them again for a few chapters. So the story follows your main character Volera aka Vol and she's this really snarky character which I loved, nothing to me spells good character then one with some bite to it :) She's a gamer and the authors created this world where its futuristic/science fiction, with gaming to the next level. Seriously I'd want to be in this world who wouldn't want to get hooked up and be in the game rather then sitting on the couch or computer chair starring at a screen all day? The world build was great I loved getting little tid bits on the different world places, it was nice rather then when some authors go a dump ten pages on just one long description. This was not that however. I enjoyed the suspense and not knowing certain things and getting to figure out finally what was wrong with Vol I was going crazy towards the end not knowing stuff about her and Catan. Which lets just say *fans self Catan may have been overly mysterious but mmhmm lets just say he was not minded lol
Details and snidbits on game background were another of my favorite I liked getting to know more on what kinda game she was playing etc. The ending probably was my favorite everything fell into place nicely. And questions were answered and I felt fulfilled. All in all I highly enjoyed this book and will definitely be looking for the next installment.

Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2013

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I loved the story, I felt connected with the main character. I learned as she learned; discovered as she discovered. The characters were very believable. There were many typos though, which was very distracting.

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alana willms

Great

Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2013

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This was a amazing book, but there were many editing errors . But. Overall a good book . But i wish it would have transitioned a little easier.

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Kai

fun, thrilling sci-fi with brilliant writing

Reviewed in Canada on September 27, 2015

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Fast, fun, thrilling sci-fi with brilliant writing. One of Campbell's strongest works, and well worth a read.

Angela

Good Short Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 2, 2013

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3.5*

Really good novella and refreshingly original. I would be very interested in playing video games the way they do in this book!

The reason(s) why I haven't given this a full four star rating is this:
1. There were a few spelling errors throughout which kind of threw me of my reading stride, such as an 'an' instead of 'a', and plural used instead of the singular ('voices' instead of 'voice'). Other than these little mistakes and a few more similar, the writing is excellent so please don't let those put you off.

2. Campbell sets the story up extremely well. The world-building is exceptional, especially for such a short book, and her characterisations were great and very informative. What bothered me however was how quickly the plot moved. Normally this would not bother me in the slightest, in fact I welcome it in most books, but in this one I wanted to savour the story and it felt like the big revelation our protagonist discovers was just too quick. I would have much preferred for this to be more slowly revealed and, in turn, be a longer read so Campbell could explore more avenues within the story. That was my little niggle anyway.

Overall, great book with an original plot and great world-building. Just a bit too short for my liking (I sincerely hope Campbell writes more within this world) which I feel pushed the plot forward too quickly.