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A review by booksnorkel
Cure for the Common Universe by Christian McKay Heidicker
3.0
I was able to get a copy of this book through my work.
I am not a true gamer, but I do know a lot about them. As it stands as someone who dabbles or knows perhaps a little more than the average person but not as much as my best friend or my boyfriend I got about 90% of the video game references that this book threw at me.
Jaxon is a video game nerd, we all know one, someone who would prefer to play video games over anything else, not really good or bad at school, just sort of coasting between games. While playing he is going to be screaming, or swearing and heaven help if you interrupt or if there’s lag. Jaxon is fat, pimply, and only a beard away from being an actual neck beard. He’s shipped off to video game rehab where the players are to earn points and when they reach a million they get to go home. Jaxon is now obsessed with leaving as fast as possible cutting corners, cheating, and doing everything he can to leave so he can go on a date with a girl he met at a car wash for like ten minutes. This book kept my interest and had its moments of fun and funny. Very ham handed with its message but not a bad read, the main character is not a likeable one and he’s not supposed to be, not many of the characters are likeable which makes this book a little hard to care about but as the reader you do want to see where it is all going. This book is for 14 on up as there is language, and mention of masturbation and all that sort of stuff, nothing that you wouldn’t hear if you were playing COD online aimed at boys though anyone who is a gamer would enjoy the name dropping involved.
I am not a true gamer, but I do know a lot about them. As it stands as someone who dabbles or knows perhaps a little more than the average person but not as much as my best friend or my boyfriend I got about 90% of the video game references that this book threw at me.
Jaxon is a video game nerd, we all know one, someone who would prefer to play video games over anything else, not really good or bad at school, just sort of coasting between games. While playing he is going to be screaming, or swearing and heaven help if you interrupt or if there’s lag. Jaxon is fat, pimply, and only a beard away from being an actual neck beard. He’s shipped off to video game rehab where the players are to earn points and when they reach a million they get to go home. Jaxon is now obsessed with leaving as fast as possible cutting corners, cheating, and doing everything he can to leave so he can go on a date with a girl he met at a car wash for like ten minutes. This book kept my interest and had its moments of fun and funny. Very ham handed with its message but not a bad read, the main character is not a likeable one and he’s not supposed to be, not many of the characters are likeable which makes this book a little hard to care about but as the reader you do want to see where it is all going. This book is for 14 on up as there is language, and mention of masturbation and all that sort of stuff, nothing that you wouldn’t hear if you were playing COD online aimed at boys though anyone who is a gamer would enjoy the name dropping involved.