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⭐8/10 I'm not too sure where I found out about this novel, but it was widely popular last year and about video games, so count me in! I really liked this one. It's about video games I guess, but it's actually about friendship. It has one of my favorite tropes of close childhood friends reconnecting later in life. This was all super effective and beautifully written and made for some evocative, powerful moments.  I liked the video game backdrop too. I thought the author made some odd choices - namely that her games clearly make no sense. She clearly knows her stuff, but this is the 90s and her games seemed incredibly complex or gimiky and like they wouldn't be fun at all. You know this is the era of like, Mario 2? But that's a minor nitpick I guess.  I saw a bunch of complaints online that this book feels pretentious and a lot of complaints that this book is woke (what a stupid word). As for the latter point, I actually thought this book did a great job o...