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I'm glad I read this before starting the actual series so I have more insight into all of the players.
Would cry again 9.5/10Let me preface this with my opinion of the series itself which I had fully read before this book. I thought the first book was absolutely amazing, kept me turning the pages. Then it gradually got weaker through the second and especially third book, but unlike others I actually liked the ending, despite it feeling a bit rushed.Now, this book. I genuinely don't think I've ever read a book that has managed to make me feel genuine emotional pain this many times. Every single ti...
An Liu deserved much more than this, you know?
Remarkably, Frey managed to create an engaging world with developed characters for each chapter, despite them being separate short stories. The difference in each of the characters and the way their individual hardships shaped them is perhaps my favourite aspect of the book; there are psychopathic Players, kind/loyal Players and, mostly commonly, by their nature or the hand of others, ruthless Players. The novel starts by explaining how the 'lines' contain the best and worst of humanity, saying
I rated every story individually and calculated my overall rating, which is 2.75 stars. I'll show you my ratings per story from low to high:Sarah Alopay, The Cahokain - 1 starBaitsakhan, The Donghu - 2 starsShari Chopra, The Harrapan - 2 starsChiyoko Takada, the Mu - 2 starsAlice Ulapala, The Koori - 2 starsHilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt, The Askumite 2 starsAisling Kopp, The Celt - 3 starsAn Liu, the Shang - 3 starsJago Tlaloc, The Olmec - 4 starsKala Mozami, The Sumerian 4 starsMarcus Loxais Megalos, T...
When I first selected this book, I didn't realize that I had stumbled into the prequel (?) of a series. As it turns out, I didn't have to have knowledge of the main series to find this book captivating. I look forward to picking up the other books at some point in the future.
I need to read more short story collections.
How they became the players.
I was ON A ROLL reading this book. And then there was Sarah's story which was.... The best way to describe it would be that it sounded like it was written by one of those "pick me" girls. You know how I read super slow? Yeah well I barely even skimmed that one. In a sense, James Frey was smart not to make his readers suffer by ending the book with the worst story so we won't have to reread the whole endgame trilogy again. I really enjoyed the other stories, but it's really hard to focus on that
Just awesome! Makes me want to reread Endgame: the Calling now that I know the Players better. I can't wait to get my hands on Endgame: Sky Key!
I really liked this book. I liked learning the backgrounds of all the lines and the characters and learning why they are who they are and why they made the decisions they did in the actual series. It adds a lot of depth to all the characters and is a quick, interesting read.
Endgame was a really good book and I when I knew a prequel will be out, I freaked out!In this book, we get to know the 12 players' background stories. In Endgame, they all seem like warriors, without regrets of killing or making choices. What this book taught me is that they were all born as people. Normal people as you and me, but because of their inheritance, they have to maturate at a very young age (even when, some of them, didn't want to). Some of the stories really shocked me (like Alice's...
It's a shame that I liked those prequel novellas much more than the third book of the trilogy. (Which honestly wasn't too hard.) I wasn't sure if I even wanted to read something that had anything to do with this book series, but I'm glad that I did, because I kinda got the same exciting/fascinating feeling from those stories as I got from the first 2 books of the trilogy. (Idk what went wrong with the last one.)Those storys were a great addition to the trilogy and show the backgrounds of the cha...
This book was a prequel, filled with short stories about the players' training.When I read The Endgame, I had wanted to know more about certain players' backstories, like An's and Sarah. But there were others who I couldn't care less about. The backstories were short, and didn't provide very much information. Some of them were at a fine length, like Marcus', but I wasn't satisfied ith most of them. They either were completely pointless, like Hilal's (I think that's his name at least?), or there
I'm not really impressed. It's interesting to see the Players' lives and the choices they make, but the flow of the story is so detached and monotonous that it doesn't draw my attention and hold it for any period of time. Each of the stories hold a main point, that is where each Player reaches a turning point in their training, and that this particular Player is slightly different from all the rest in their line for some reason. Reasons differ between people, but they are all primarily 'special'...
