Trying for the "double" theme, but not working so far. Eve is pretty normal in the sense that she's normally unhappy. V. is a psychopath. They meet a couple of times. V. doesn't kill Eve because . . . I guess some empathy, kindred feeling. Now V. is off to Russia to finish off Nadia who didn't die even though she was run over a couple of times. Keep waiting to get hooked . . . hasn't happened yet. Lightly likeable, but tries so hard to be off-beat.
Follows Sadie and Sam (Mazer) from childhood to mid-thirties when both are feeling old and a bit out of it in the gaming world. Characters are well-rounded, develop throughout the novel in interesting way. Plot is involved but sensible. Not a single, "Oh, come on!" moment. The book could have been faster paced. Odd, since the main topic is video games which are not for their speed of engagement and Gabrielle Zevin clearly knows her video games. Recommended by Michael Connelly in an interview. He also has Bosch pick up the book in his novel, Resurrection Walk, as Bosch tails a possible witness to a crime as she moves through a bookstore. Sadie and Sam do not get together at the end, which is good. Marx killed by homophobic nutcase who really wants to kill Sam, but Sam isn't there. Marx is father of Sadie's child.
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