BOOK REVIEW + GIVEAWAY: THE GAME OF LIVES (THE MORTALITY DOCTRINE #3) BY JAMES DASHNER

TITLE: The Game of Lives
AUTHOR: James Dashner
SERIES: The Mortality Doctrine #3
RELEASE DATE: November 17th 2015
RELEASED BY: Delacorte Press
SOURCE: Publisher for review
PURCHASE: Amazon

SYNOPSIS:

This game might just kill you.

Michael used to live to game. Now the games he was playing have become all too real. Only weeks ago, Sinking into the Sleep was fun. The VirtNet combined the most cutting-edge technology and the most sophisticated gaming for a full mind-body experience. And it was Michael's passion. But now every time Michael Sinks, he risks his life.

The games are over. The VirtNet has become a world of deadly consequences, and Kaine grows stronger by the day. The Mortality Doctrine - Kaine's master plan - has nearly been realized. If Kaine succeeds, it will mean worldwide cyber domination. And it looks like Michael and his friends are the only ones who can put the monster back in the box - if Michael can figure out who his friends really are.

Other books in the series:

The Eye of Minds

The Rule of Thoughts

BOOK REVIEW: THE RULE OF THOUGHTS (THE MORTALITY DOCTRINE #2) BY JAMES DASHNER

TITLE: The Rule of Thoughts
AUTHOR: James Dashner
SERIES: The Mortality Doctrine #2
RELEASE DATE: August 26th 2014
RELEASED BY: Delacorte Press
PURCHASE: Amazon

SYNOPSIS:

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Maze Runner series comes The Rule of Thoughts, the exciting sequel to The Eye of Minds. Fans of the Divergent series by Veronica Roth and The Hunger Games will love the new Mortality Doctrine series.

Michael completed the Path.What he found at the end turned everything he’d ever known about his life—and the world—completely upside down.

He barely survived. But it was the only way VirtNet Security knew to find the cyber-terrorist Kaine—and to make the Sleep safe for gamers once again. And, the truth Michael discovered about Kaine is more complex than they anticipated, and more terrifying than even the worst of their fears.

Kaine is a tangent, a computer program that has become sentient. And Michael’s completing the Path was the first stage in turning Kaine’s master plan, the Mortality Doctrine, into a reality.

The Mortality Doctrine will populate Earth entirely with human bodies harboring tangent minds. Any gamer who sinks into the VirtNet risks coming out with a tangent intelligence in control of their body.

And the takeover has already begun.

BOOK REVIEW: THE EYE OF MINDS (THE MORTALITY DOCTRINE #1) BY JAMES DASHNER

TITLE: The Eye of Minds

AUTHOR: James Dashner

SERIES: The Mortality Doctrine #1

RELEASE DATE: October 8th 2013

RELEASED BY: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

PURCHASE: Amazon

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.