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The Path

Just Cause Universe, Book 14

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The Path

By: Ian Thomas Healy
Narrated by: Jessica Renfro
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Trapped in the game.

Vanitha is the world's greatest parahuman hacker and can physically enter computer systems to control them from the inside. To relax, she's created a Hindu-themed multiplayer online role-playing game called The Path. When a mystery presents itself, she goes to investigate the strange new Malevolence. It kills her.

She awakens inside the game as a new character, unable to use her parahuman powers to return to the real world. Nor can she access any of her administrative privileges. She can't even speak her own name. With no other options, she embarks upon a desperate quest to locate her body, a corpse run that may present her only chance to escape.

All the while, the Malevolence is spreading like a cancer, rewriting and corrupting the game. It's a speedrun where failure will be lethal: get her body and her powers back before the Malevolence destroys the game and everything inside it - including her.

©2018 Ian Thomas Healy (P)2019 Ian Thomas Healy Fantasy Superhero Fiction

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Oh wow, I loved this book. We met Vanitha/Kallie in a previous book in the Just Cause series and I thought she made for an interesting and unusual character then. So was really glad to see she got her own book and the author didn't disappointed me with this adventure. It is a very different plot line to the rest of the books, in the fact that it all takes place in a virtual world and like a computer game the character has to level up in order to progress, so you did keep getting status updates like a game but I think it helps you to imagine the game concept. I really enjoyed the book because doing side quests or trying to boost up her karma points meant there was a lot going on and plenty of action, as well as characters. I also like that she kept the power orbs that we met before, when a hero died and she needed to fix them, they are so cheeky and a great addition. I hope this isn't the last we have seen of Vanitha.
Vanitha is a parahuman with the power to physically enter a computer but unlike most super hero's she doesn't want her powers known or help save the world unless she is getting paid. So what does a world class hacker do, she creates her own world and designs a computer game, a multi player online role playing game where helping others gains you karma points and levels you up. But something is wrong with the game a a black cloud like shape has started to form. When Vanitha goes to check it out the unthinkable happens and she gets kicked out of the game and wakes up to find herself stuck in a earlier version of the game and all her privileges of being the admin revoked. As a new player Vanitha will have to level up fast if she wants to stop the black cloud from taking over her game and get her body back, which is floating lose in space in another version of the game. But unlike a computer game if Vanitha is killed in the game she dies in real life. Making it a game of life and death.
I really liked the narrator as most of the characters are of Pakistan descent and she gave them some great sounding voices with very good accents.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

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Besides the books featuring the main Just Cause team, the author has already released a book where they were not the focus and this is another one like that, except this time round he takes a further step away from his usual pattern with this one being more like Gameit or litrpg than the superhero genre of the others.

This approach works well with the nature of the powers of Vanitha who isn't really a superhero despite her having powers and having previously appeared in other books in the series, the challenges she faces while trapped within this game also cause her to question herself and her actions, which isn't an uncommon theme in this author's work.

This book also sees another new narrator take over the reins of the series and while a good job is done overall, a little more energy to the narration would have probably improved this book even more.

Overall, an entertaining instalment in the series and I hope that the author returns to this character again, either in another book of her own or with her making more than a cameo in one of the main team books.

[Note - I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.]

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