3.5 out of 5 stars

Dee has been on the ship for six months now and she raging about the circumstances that led her to be on there as well as the events that happened after they had left. She wants to find was responsible, but her limited privileges on the ship mean she is making no progress on it at all.

She has been noticed though by someone in authority. She is asked to provide some analysis for them and they are happy with her results and work. She gets paid for it and there is the offer of more work, and most importantly, access to databases that she never knew existed. On top of that, she has been invited to play in some of the games or mersives by a designer.

These games are incredibly intense, unlike anything that she has tried up until now. It is only after she returns to normal life that she realises that one of the people in the game she was playing is now actually dead on the ship. Her friend, Carl is asked to investigate. And whilst she knows the game felt real, she really doesn’t believe that it was that real. Or was it? Perhaps the chatbot that only seems to be talking to her may have the answer. On not. She really doesn’t know…

Given how much of a blast the previous book was, I had high hopes for this, the final book in the series. And don’t get me wrong, It was good in various ways, however, I was disappointed for a few reasons that I will come to in a moment. I really liked the AI and the tech that they use to live on this ship that was made from the information in the capsule. The characters were engaging too, though Carl from book 2 was a little two-dimensional in this. Some of the details of the plot were good, the way that the action in the ‘mersives was having an impact on real life on the ship, blurring the differences between the real world and the virtual worlds. I had a problem with a couple of the aspects of the plot though, firstly it seemed too easy for events to take place given how monitored the passengers on the ship were and it kind of felt that it was rushed to a conclusion. I had hope for other things to happen, but sadly that wasn’t to be.

Generally, I thought it was a good series though with some high points and only the odd low one. I kind of hope there is going to be the fifth book in the series, as there are so many unanswered questions, but haven’t seen anything about it.

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