The Mortality Doctrine series review

I had fallen in LOVE with the Maze Runner series - I have yet to read the prequels thought - and I was so excited when I first heard about The Eye of Minds and I was like YES I'm going to live in another James Dashner world with plot twists, enemies, deaths and friendships and a great protagonist……….but I left this series feeling a little bit….eh. There were certainly a number of enjoyable factors but overall I have mixed feelings. without further ado lets dive in.

The Eye of Minds

A world where Gaming is far more real than ever, the world is getting more freighting as Kaine a game hacker is coming to all sorts of crime to take over the human race, the VNS ((a company in charge of a process called the Sleep where people Sink into the gaming world ))they ask the help from the best gamer they know; Michael and his two best friends Bryson and Sarah to help them figure Kaine's plan and bring him down.

The first book was great filled with verities of gaming worlds and obstacles. Kaine was so powerful and evil. Micheal and his friends were willing to put everything on the line to achieve their goal. Some scenes gave me goosebumps and I was sitting at the edge of my seat and overall had great dialog, with interesting characters and a fine ending.

4 out of 5 stars

Now the rest of the review will contain some spoilers in it but not too much, (those will be written in between arches)

The Rule of Thoughts

After Michael discovered the horrific truth about himself (he is a string of code and was placed into a human's body) he's in a lost but also running for his life and trying to save his friends from Kaine.

The first half of the book they spend it in running away and finding shelters, but they were plenty of unanswered questions for a long time and we were just as confused as Micheal in this book, in this part of the series Michael is not a very strong main character,( I mean come on you’re a super intelligent computer program) but he seemed to only know the answer when someone actually tells him what the answer is.

Still not a big deal since in this book he seems to be dealing with a lot of stress. The programming seemed a little too easy, easy enough that the author doesn't seem to explain how it actually works, and we just supposed to think that technology is this big magnificent thing that can do anything, yet it's so easy to manipulate ?!?!?.

and then comes the allies part, who should Michael and his friends trust and why. I mean they always seem to get this jumpy, uncertain feeling about things, yet they are never acting on their feelings so they end up in a more messed up situation.

This book, in particular, was super stretchy with so many unneeded details, it could lose 50 to 70 pages easily, and I was waiting and waiting for things to speed up, and it did but only at the end but overall it had a good conflict in it.

3 out of 5 stars

The Game of Lives Um…….no

This whole book was entirely focused on Michael's overwhelmed feelings and confusion and again he doesn’t understand anything until someone literally spells it out to him, he finally gets the hang of things at the end.

and oh the normal YA cliché that neither parts are good and teens got to solve everything.

(Kaine ended up not being very evil-ish but we still have to destroy him? kinda?!but after we listen to what he had to say? maybe!)

I honestly wanted this series in general to have more characters in general from both the good and bad because it seemed the whole world was sort of surrounded around five people.

The author keeps us just as confused through half of this book I didn't know what was happening or who was doing what or even why and when we finally got the explanation it got wrapped up pretty quickly.

The ending was a bit too easy as the whole hacking and technology thing was very fast and unrealistic and also unexplained. There were some pretty good values that Michael and his friends stayed focused on and wouldn't change their mind about or nudge no matter how many threats they had.

I gave the whole series 3.5 stars. I do plan on reading more James Dashner but I wasn't very satisfied with this one.