Book Review: Rabbits by Terry Miles

A deadly underground game might just be altering reality itself in this all-new adventure set in the world of the hit Rabbits podcast.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL * "A wild ride . . . impossible to put down."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

It's an average work day. You've been wrapped up in a task, and you check the clock when you come up for air--4:44 p.m. You check your email, and 44 unread messages have built up. With a shock, you realize the date is April 4--4/4. And when you get in your car to drive home, your odometer reads 44,444.

Coincidence? Or have you just seen the edge of a rabbit hole?

Rabbits is a mysterious alternate reality game so vast it uses the entire world as its canvas.

Since the game started in 1959, ten iterations have appeared and nine winners have been declared. The identities of these winners are unknown.

So is their reward, which is whispered to be NSA or CIA recruitment, vast wealth, immortality, or perhaps even the key to the secrets of the universe itself.

But the deeper you get, the more dangerous the game becomes. Players have died in the past--and the body count is rising.

And now the eleventh round is about to begin.

Enter K--a Rabbits obsessive who has been trying to find a way into the game for years. That path opens when K is approached by billionaire Alan Scarpio, rumored to be the winner of the sixth iteration. Scarpio says that something has gone wrong with the game and that K needs to fix it before Eleven starts, or the whole world will pay the price.

Five days later, Scarpio is declared missing.

Two weeks after that, K blows the deadline: Eleven begins.

And suddenly, the fate of the entire universe is at stake.

I found myself in a massive reading slump, but then I read Rabbits, and I have been reading other books in the same genre as of late—no more reading slump. I found out about Rabbits by the podcast with the same name. As many of you know, I received my cochlear ear implants six years ago, and the novelty of being able to hear and UNDERSTAND spoken words still has not gone away. I ended up listening to both seasons of Rabbits straight through.

The Rabbits Podcasts was so enthralling than when I heard that Terry Miles had written the book, Rabbits. I couldn’t hit buy on my kindle fast enough. I read the whole thing in one sitting.

I kept reading instead of sleeping because I HAD to know if K was ok.  it says right on the book that the “game” had maybe created a rip in reality, and I wanted to know what exactly a rip in reality was..Then the best plot twist I have read in my whole life whopped me upside the head, and I had to read it three times to make sure it was from the book and not from my head playing jokes on me. I have read many techno-thrillers in my day, but Rabbits has a plot twist that is STILL one of the best, if not the absolute best.

The basic premise of the book is about an underground game gone wrong. Then K has to go around to try and fix the game before all the metaverses collapse. Yes, that’s right, the “meta” verse. I think that is where Mark Zentunberg got the idea of the whole meta thingie. If you ask me. If you had trouble understanding what a metaverse is, here is a handy link to explain it all.

Rabbits will take you on a wild ride through a few metaverses, maybe… Before I hit the PLOT TWIST of the century, I had thought that it was limited to ONE real universe; then the PLOT TWIST happened, and even though I have been reading Hard Sci-Fi my whole life, that plot twist was so twisty that I had to read that chapter 4 times to make sure I was reading correctly… I was. I will not say much more than this because it is sooooo much better if all you know is what is on the Rabbits Podcast, and some game has gone very wrong a dit is messing with. The “fabric of reality .”And it is up to K to fix it. It has a superfast moving plot, so if you want to dig into the ideas in the book, it is better to listen to the Rabbits podcast both seasons first.

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