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Kathy reichs code5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() An excellent storyline was not capitalised on because of the limited first-person narrative which turned it into lightweight storytelling. This singular viewpoint blocks you from knowing how each character responds and reacts to events and to each other, and I found this frustrating. There are only scant references to the special, accidental gift that links the four, and the story is written in the first person by 14 year old Tory Brennan, the only girl in the gang. ![]() ![]() Without this, it took me nearly half way into the adventure before I started to get to know each of the four main protagonists. To gain the most from this book you really need to have read the first two books. This novel is the third in the Virals series. They are endowed with a strange, telepathic power which aids them in times of danger, but it seems they are still no match for the Gamemaster, who manipulates them towards his final act of destruction. Pitched against the mysterious Gamemaster, they follow a trail of complicated clues, but as each one is solved they realise they are always one step behind. Set in South Carolina, the four teenagers find themselves on a seemingly innocent treasure hunt which turns into a race against time to prevent a mass murder. Code, part sci-fi and part fantasy, is a story about a gang of four friends who discover a strange box buried in the ground which sets them on a trail of time-critical clues and puzzles, where failure at any stage will result in terrible, death-dealing consequences. ![]()
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