Rabbits by Terry Miles
Do you recall a while ago, there was a debate about whether or not the hit TV show from the very early 2000s; called the Berenstain Bears, was recalled by many being pronounced as the Berenstein Bears, with an E. Or do you recall Nelson Mandela passing away during the 1980S, despite him being released in 1990 and later becoming South Africa’s president. One more, did Fruit of the Loom include a cornucopia? If you said yes, you would be wrong. Now, is this just a case of mass misremembering? Or is it a clue to the world’s most mysterious alternate reality game, so vast it uses our global reality as its canvas? Yeah, that sounds way better.
What to expect
Time Shifts
World Ending
Time Warping
Gorry Death
Sci-Fi themes such as quantum physics, universal theory
Clue Hunting
Race Against Time
The Book Rabbits by Terry Miles follows the main character called K. The gender of this character is never revealed in the book; however, there is a podcast that this book is based on, which is narrated by a woman. K has had an obsession with the underground game called Rabbits that uses the real world as its chessboard. Now you might be wondering what exactly is the game Rabbits. Well, if you start noticing things that shouldn’t be where they are, such as; the statue of liberty holding the torch in her left hand instead of the right hand, that would be a clue. You follow these clues to find more and more discrepancies or strange coincidences to ultimately find more clues.
K has always been very in tune with the surroundings around them. Always looking for patterns and connections. Which makes them the perfect Rabbits player. One normal worknight, K is working late at the arcade, holding a “Rabbits Introduction For Beginners”. This is where folks from around the Seattle area can come and learn about the secret game and ask questions. Since K knows a lot about the game, they hold these events to raise a little extra money for the arcade, and K loves talking about the game, so why not? On this particular day, however, there was a new guest in the audience who seemed to like to hear himself talk. K was intrigued with the question he was asking; he isn’t a regular, but someone very familiar with the games. When K and the gang wrapped up the night at the arcade. The mysterious man from earlier caught up with K and told him that he needed to meet him at the dinner in 20 minutes. Intrigued, K leaves the cleaning up to his coworkers. K crosses the street and walks into the dimly lit diner. He spots the man from earlier and slides into the booth across the table from him. The man explains to K that his name is Alan Scorpio, the winner of the 7th interaction of the Rabbits game. He tells K that there is something wrong with the game, players are mysteriously ending up dead or missing. If K can’t help fix the games, then everyone on Earth is at the brink of extinction.
This book follows K and friends in their journey to save the world, and the mysterious game called Rabbits. I loved this book; I gave it 4 stars. The reason that it wasn’t 5 stars was because it did have its moments of dragging on and kind of getting a little slow. It did quickly pick back up, but when it got slow… it got slow. I also noticed that the author did have a bit of a hard time conveying the concept of the game rabbits and how it originated. The author, I think, got a little wrapped up in his descriptions, kind of losing the plot a little bit by mentioning quantum physics and generational dimensional drifts. BUT, that doesn’t mean you’ll end up getting lost in the book. Even if you don’t understand what he’s talking about here, you’ll still be able to follow the story.
