A review by blattzirkus
Wild Cards: Das Spiel der Spiele, by George R.R. Martin
5.0
Can someone tell me how on earth I'm supposed to read so many Wild Card books? It is insane how many are already published. Anyway – review time!
Plot
It's a world where the wild card virus got developed in the 1940s after Aliens attacked earth and the human population got saved by Jetboy, literally an American Hero, an Ace. There are normal people, jokers and aces. Jokers are some sort of mutans and Aces got super powers. Back to the present, most the islamic countries of Arabia merged into a caliphate. The British secret service wants their own calif there since they murdered the old one. That's where the bloody riots start. In another country, The United States, a reality TV series is about to start – American Hero. Similar to Big Brother, the contestants got to live in groups in a house together, have cameras everywhere and missions to accomplish. The missions seem silly and after a more or less important incident the eliminated contestants are facing a much greater and more important mission in their lives – fighting against the Arabian army to end the bloody riots.
Characters
There are a lot of characters, and a few point of views. You'll get the hang on when which character is viewed and why. I liked most of the characters, one of my favorites was Jonathan Hives, Ana the Earth Witch and Rustman to be honest. Amazing Bubbles and Curveball were cool too. The point is, they are all well written. There were no eye rolls this time, which I love. The characters seems real and you could tell them apart because they were so different from each other. Very good.
Opinion
I had this book since my birthday (which has been almost seven months ago, oh god). The longer I haven't read it, the more it scared me. Standing in my shelf and looking evil. See, I love the Game of Thrones books, George R. R. Martin can be intimidating sometimes, because he puts so much detail into his story. My point is that I kinda thought I wouldn't like it for some reason and it turned out to be a very good book! It wasn't as detailed as Game of Thrones (= you wouldn't read too long about a scene and will think after it "well you could have shortened that!" Man I sound like I hate Game of Thrones, but I really love it) but it showed some serious action and character development. The show concept wasn't new at all but it didn't matter since something else was going on in the world as well. International aspect speaking. Also I was reading it really fast since I couldn't really stop once starting so yeah, this detail makes the book good as well.
Plot
It's a world where the wild card virus got developed in the 1940s after Aliens attacked earth and the human population got saved by Jetboy, literally an American Hero, an Ace. There are normal people, jokers and aces. Jokers are some sort of mutans and Aces got super powers. Back to the present, most the islamic countries of Arabia merged into a caliphate. The British secret service wants their own calif there since they murdered the old one. That's where the bloody riots start. In another country, The United States, a reality TV series is about to start – American Hero. Similar to Big Brother, the contestants got to live in groups in a house together, have cameras everywhere and missions to accomplish. The missions seem silly and after a more or less important incident the eliminated contestants are facing a much greater and more important mission in their lives – fighting against the Arabian army to end the bloody riots.
Characters
There are a lot of characters, and a few point of views. You'll get the hang on when which character is viewed and why. I liked most of the characters, one of my favorites was Jonathan Hives, Ana the Earth Witch and Rustman to be honest. Amazing Bubbles and Curveball were cool too. The point is, they are all well written. There were no eye rolls this time, which I love. The characters seems real and you could tell them apart because they were so different from each other. Very good.
Opinion
I had this book since my birthday (which has been almost seven months ago, oh god). The longer I haven't read it, the more it scared me. Standing in my shelf and looking evil. See, I love the Game of Thrones books, George R. R. Martin can be intimidating sometimes, because he puts so much detail into his story. My point is that I kinda thought I wouldn't like it for some reason and it turned out to be a very good book! It wasn't as detailed as Game of Thrones (= you wouldn't read too long about a scene and will think after it "well you could have shortened that!" Man I sound like I hate Game of Thrones, but I really love it) but it showed some serious action and character development. The show concept wasn't new at all but it didn't matter since something else was going on in the world as well. International aspect speaking. Also I was reading it really fast since I couldn't really stop once starting so yeah, this detail makes the book good as well.