Book Review: God is a Gamer
Blurb from the Book
From the bestselling author of ‘If God was a Banker’ comes the first ever bitcoin thriller. ‘God is a Gamer’ is a world where money means nothing, martyrs are villains, predators are prey, assassination is taught by the Ancient Greeks, and nothing is as it seems.
Moving from Washington’s Congress to Delhi’s finance ministry, the beaches of Goa to the corporate boardrooms of Mumbai, this is Ravi Subramanian’s most gripping novel yet.
Bitcoin has become the manna for many-a writer in the recent years. The mystery surrounding the inception and the further media attention has made it a very attractive plot line. It has been covered pretty well on and off on in books, movies, TV series but the only place where I thought it handled the best would be the good wife. They did not sensationalize the phenomenon rather they tried to understand the ramifications it would have in the world we live in, which makes a pretty interesting study. Nonetheless the book has tried to incorporate everything that’s relevant to the internet security in this day and age which makes it a good thriller read.
I single clicked to review this book just because of this one liner: “The first thriller about bitcoins”. I liked that it was signed by the author. I t took me a bit of time to get around to reading the book because of my schedule but I must point out I was not disappointed. It is fast paced with a number of parallel plotlines running. You feel like that you are almost unraveling the mystery only to be left with a tiny piece of puzzle which is what we look for in a good weekend read. You want to be actively engaged with the story and engaged I was.
The author tried to cover as many bases as possible when it comes to themes ranging from greed, crime, money laundering, deceit, corruption and revenge. What worked in this book is the grip that the author had across so many parallel plots. Narration takes geographic and temporal leaps but you are not disoriented by these jumps. The one thing that I really like was that this book is very informative about a lot of technical concepts. But I found the end little predictable.
Verdict: I would suggest this book to anyone who is into technology. It marries a lot of good news worthy events and gets a tight story line. Definitely worth a read while you are bored on a long flight.
This review is a part of the Book Reviews Program at BlogAdda.com.
From the bestselling author of ‘If God was a Banker’ comes the first ever bitcoin thriller. ‘God is a Gamer’ is a world where money means nothing, martyrs are villains, predators are prey, assassination is taught by the Ancient Greeks, and nothing is as it seems.
Moving from Washington’s Congress to Delhi’s finance ministry, the beaches of Goa to the corporate boardrooms of Mumbai, this is Ravi Subramanian’s most gripping novel yet.
Bitcoin has become the manna for many-a writer in the recent years. The mystery surrounding the inception and the further media attention has made it a very attractive plot line. It has been covered pretty well on and off on in books, movies, TV series but the only place where I thought it handled the best would be the good wife. They did not sensationalize the phenomenon rather they tried to understand the ramifications it would have in the world we live in, which makes a pretty interesting study. Nonetheless the book has tried to incorporate everything that’s relevant to the internet security in this day and age which makes it a good thriller read.
I single clicked to review this book just because of this one liner: “The first thriller about bitcoins”. I liked that it was signed by the author. I t took me a bit of time to get around to reading the book because of my schedule but I must point out I was not disappointed. It is fast paced with a number of parallel plotlines running. You feel like that you are almost unraveling the mystery only to be left with a tiny piece of puzzle which is what we look for in a good weekend read. You want to be actively engaged with the story and engaged I was.
The author tried to cover as many bases as possible when it comes to themes ranging from greed, crime, money laundering, deceit, corruption and revenge. What worked in this book is the grip that the author had across so many parallel plots. Narration takes geographic and temporal leaps but you are not disoriented by these jumps. The one thing that I really like was that this book is very informative about a lot of technical concepts. But I found the end little predictable.
Verdict: I would suggest this book to anyone who is into technology. It marries a lot of good news worthy events and gets a tight story line. Definitely worth a read while you are bored on a long flight.
This review is a part of the Book Reviews Program at BlogAdda.com.
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