I had high hopes for this one. I saw a couple rave reviews go by (including the Publisher's Weekly plug in the summary above) and I was intrigued by the premise.But... no. Right now, I'm wishing there were a way I could get my $2 back from Amazon. The writing style is very annoying (it's a translation, but I suspect that's unrelated). The author has sprinkled inner monologue everywhere, ranging from outdated catch phrases ("As if...!" and "Run, Forrest, run!") to juvenile hostility ("Suck my ass...

Can't remember when I read this but I have been looking out for the next in the series for some time and just found it in a charity shop in Cornwall! Then was surprised to find this one not shown as 'read' on Goodreads!! Probably read it before I started using the site - long time ago then!!!

It seemed promising, but I didn't like it that much...Fortunately, I didn't buy the whole trilogy all at once!

I received a free ebook ARC copy of this book from NetGalley. Thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.Okay, here's the deal. It took me almost two weeks to read this. I'm not planning a long review, because I'm honestly tired of thinking about this thing and want to wash my hands of it. I feel that I owe NetGalley a review for providing the free copy, so here goes.There were some good things about this book. The premise: conspiracy theory a...

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing!So, I've read this book several years ago, and I loved it so much, it's definitely my favourite when it comes to WANNA PLAY A GAME? type of books or movies. Last night I just had a look at my bookshelf, I saw this book (for some reason next to The Vampire Academy series, talk about system or organisation) and I felt like I needed to read this book. Now here I am. I flew through this book, and I'm shaken. While I thought that I remembered the book ver...

Game: a competitive activity involving skill, chance, or endurance on the part of two or more persons who play according to a set of rules, usually for their own amusement or for that of spectatorsCourtesy of Dictionary.com.,LLCAfter seeing someone has left a phone on the train, what do you do? Do you try to flag them down in an effort to return their property or do you turn it on and consider yourself lucky to have found such a treasure? Before you can really figure what to do, the phone buzzs....

3.5 stars. It didn't took long for me to get hooked on then story, a found phone that knows many things about you and then invite you to a dangerous irl game, sounded great and the first half of the book was intense but after that it just slowly got kinda boring. The intensity of the game and story disappeared. HP the main character is an immature fool, and I quite liked the fact that he was such a moron who didn't think of consequences. Made the story a little more believable. His sister had a

Promising idea, but not so well executed! It had its moments of excitement but didn't escalate the way I hoped! The writing style, a little bit confusing but you can follow it after a while. The ending is pointing towards the second book.

This book is the first book in the Game Trilogy by Swedish author Anders De La Motte. I got this one and the second book, Buzz, for free from Netgalley. I've read this one. I'm not sure if I want to read the second one.The premise is interesting. HP picks up a cell phone he thinks someone left on the train. It's sleek, shiny and state-of-the-art so he fiddles with it before deciding to look for its owner. The phone comes to life and asks HP if he wants to play a game. For stealing a fellow passe...

I received a free copy of this book from netgalley in exchange for an honest review.I loved this book! A real edge of your seat thriller! HP finds a cool looking cell phone on the train in Sweden. It keeps asking him if he wants to play a game and it knows his name. He eventually gets sucked into "The Game", earning kudos, points and money for doing progressively risky and illegal assigned tasks in the real world. He doesn't care why, he is having too much fun feeling like he is a superstar onli...

The more "gamer" books that I read, the more that there needs to be of these books. I am going to search to see what other books are out there like this. This needs to be its own genre. These books are great. Well the ones I have read thus far. I have been lucky to read some good ones. I had this book sitting on my shelf for quite a while. Recently, I have read or attempted to read and the last three to four books were not good. So, I was looking for something to pick me up again. I grabbed this...

I saw this book in a bookstore and I was immediately attracted by its cover and after I read the synopses it seemed a very interesting and promising book.The story begins when HP finds a cellphone in a train, and basically, in the first chapter, we find an annoying smartphone asking HP if he wants to play The Game. It took me a while to finish this chapter because I knew HP would play The Game (obviously, that’s the tittle of this 300-and-something-pages-book) so all that narrative was a little

Henrik "HP" Pettersson is an immature person who has no impulse control. He is riding on a train and sees a mobile phone on the seat. When he looks at it, there is a message to him, inviting him to join a game. He thinks his friend set this up but goes along with it. He's told to wear a small camera on his clothing and is excited that people will watch his actions. HP is given small challenges to begin with. These are usually illegal things like stealing a man's umbrella but HP doesn't care if t...

Here's a great example of a poorly executed good idea. This book's premise is promising, but the promise dissolves pretty quickly. Boring characters, bad writing, bad editing, predictable developments. The only glimmer of hope were the last 30 or so pages. I doubt if I'll read the rest of this trilogy.

3.5 stars Translated without issue, this is a fast-paced thriller, an intriguing concept, though the characters aren't always the most sympathetic.Rebecca is a police officer, intent on her career, talented and with issues from her past she is trying to live with. HP (Hendrik) is ambition-less, an opportunist, egotistical. On a train one day, he spots an abandoned mobile phone and of course, takes it, but immediately finds his name appearing on the screen and himself pulled into a world of dares...