Evermore: Call of the Nocturne

by Scott Blurton

Adam should be a happy man. He is the creator of Evermore, a virtual reality world in which millions of people play, work and live their lives in bliss. Days away from an initial stock offering that will make him a millionaire, Adam is on top of the world. But there is one secret that Adam must hide. Evermore can kill you. Faced with a sudden and inexplicable murder inside his virtual paradise, Adam must turn to a dangerous mercenary known only by the name Blue. Driven by her insatiable lust for violence, Blue must enter Evermore and hunt down the killer. But once she jacks in, will she be ready for the secrets that await her?

390 pages, Paperback

First published September 18, 2012

Reviews

[Andree · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book had a lot of interesting elements. I have to say, the best part was Evermore itself; the virtual world was well done. Very detailed, and quite interesting.

I do wish the main character had a few more personality traits than blind rage. I also could have done with fewer fights (though I was well warned about those). Full disclosure, this is probably not a book that I would have picked up on my own, subject-matter wise, if I didn't know the author. Not because it was bad, but more because it's not typically what I read.

In a way, I think it would have been interesting as a series, because there was a lot about the world packed into one book. In a series, different facets of the world could have been explored a little more slowly. Because there's a lot to the world. This is obviously very theoretically, given the plot of this book, and how it ends. Although, still not 100% sure exactly what happened with that ending, though that was obviously deliberate.

An interesting concept. It's kind of Ready Player One (minus the 80s references and the competition) meets Inception with a murder mystery twist.

[Fred Conrad · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book got off to a terrific start. The concept is reverse "Matrix" and it really works, it's a great set-up. However something seemed wrong in the space-time continuum of the plot (not of the faux reality). One of the main characters, the one pursuing the villain, seems to take ten times longer to get from any given point A to any given point B than any and every other character in the book. The general effect is that even after she figures out who she's chasing, she can't catch up to him no matter how long he spends in any one place committing random acts of prolonged violence. He can be three blocks away involved in some massive confrontation that takes fifty pages to explain, involves helicopters and tanks and by the time she gets there she has to start all over looking for him because she missed it.

That and the plot got a little more convoluted at the end than it really needed to be. On the whole it was good sci-fi.