The Eye of Minds (The Mortality Doctrine #1) -

James Dashner

Delacorte Books for Young Readers

2013

304 páginas

10h 8m

ISBN-13: 9780385741392

An all-new, edge-of-your seat adventure from James Dashner, the author of the New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series, The Eye of Minds is the first book in The Mortality Doctrine, a series set in a world of hyperadvanced technology, cyberterrorists, and gaming beyond your wildest dreams... and your worst nightmares.

Michael is a gamer. And like most gamers, he almost spends more time on the VirtNet than in the actual world. The VirtNet offers total mind and body immersion, and it's addictive. Thanks to technology, anyone with enough money can experience fantasy worlds, risk their life without the chance of death, or just hang around with Virt-friends. And the more hacking skills you have, the more fun. Why bother following the rules when most of them are dumb, anyway?

But some rules were made for a reason. Some technology is too dangerous to fool with. And recent reports claim that one gamer is going beyond what any gamer has done before: he's holding players hostage inside the VirtNet. The effects are horrific-the hostages have all been declared brain-dead. Yet the gamer's motives are a mystery.

The government knows that to catch a hacker, you need a hacker.

And they've been watching Michael. They want him on their team.

But the risk is enormous. If he accepts their challenge, Michael will need to go off the VirtNet grid. There are back alleys and corners in the system human eyes have never seen and predators he can't even fathom-and there's the possibility that the line between game and reality will be blurred forever.

Resenhas (1)

4 (Muito bom)

Um "Matrix" bem inferior, mas que dá para o gasto.

Comecei esse livro com altas expectativas, a premissa onde um jogo de Realidade Virtual (VirtNet) estava sendo "ameaçado" por um jogador extremamente habilidoso que, de alguma forma, estava causando morte cerebral nos jogadores, me prendeu bastante. Mas, infelizmente para mim, o desenvolvimento do livro não foi tão bom quanto o esperado. Sim, tem um ritmo muito bom (afinal é o James q escreveu), mas eu estava esperando alguma coisa no nível de Jogador Nº1, e bem, quebrei a cara.
Porém não tomem isso como julgamento, o livro apenas não funcionou muito bem comigo, e sim, vou ler o segundo porque o cliffhanger final realmente me prendeu, e o segundo pode superar o primeiro.