
The Path
Just Cause Universe, Book 14
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Narrated by:
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Jessica Renfro
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By:
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Ian Thomas Healy
About this listen
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 HealyVanitha 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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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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