Rabbits by Terry MilesMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book was a wild ride and I enjoyed it. Rabbits is a game, which you don’t talk about, and the secrecy means that nearly everything is rumor. When did it start really, maybe in 1959, maybe longer; why did it start, who controls it, and how do you play; all are shrouded in mystery and guesses. It’s also rumored that people have died playing.
K is the main character, and he is approached by a multi-billionaire that is rumored to have won the 9th version of the game. He says there is something wrong with the game and needs K’s help to fix it before the next iteration begins. Why K is never really explored but when said billionaire goes missing right after their meeting, K along with his friend Chloe is now looking into clues and patterns that may be part of the game.
The game is built on pattern recognition, coincidences and odd discrepancies in the world, such as a painting having three windows instead of the two. Deep fake videos and photographs, old technology, video games all of these things are part of playing the game. It helps if you’re OCD but then again you may go too far and have a break down like K. He’s an unreliable narrator; the lack of sleep, maybe it was a dream, he suddenly is missing time makes things murky.
The book felt like a mix of Ready Player One, Stranger Things and The Number 23. There is a deep darkness to the book, a dark shadow that seems to haunt K and want to devour him. Despite K being told several times to not play, he keeps getting sucked into following the clues, and of course we’re there along with him.
Thanks to Del Rey Books/Ballantine and NetGalley for an uncorrected electronic advance review copy of this book.
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