Jeff Rice’s Reviews > Ready Player Two > Status Update

As good as the first?

I don’t like it as much. The 80s pop culture references feel gratuitous and forced much of the time. To the point that they seem to slow the book down. Perhaps because many of them didn’t resonate with me as much as the first books references did. It is still good. Just not as good as the first one IMO. Maybe 3.5-4 stars.