Rabbits - Terry Miles

Rabbits

By Terry Miles

  • Release Date: 2021-06-08
  • Genre: Adventure Sci-Fi
Score: 4
4
From 158 Ratings

Description

A deadly underground game might just be altering reality itself in this all-new adventure set in the world of the hit Rabbits podcast.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL • “A wild ride . . . impossible to put down.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

It’s an average work day. You’ve been wrapped up in a task, and you check the clock when you come up for air—4:44 p.m. You check your email, and 44 unread messages have built up. With a shock, you realize the date is April 4—4/4. And when you get in your car to drive home, your odometer reads 44,444.

Coincidence? Or have you just seen the edge of a rabbit hole?

Rabbits is a mysterious alternate reality game so vast it uses the entire world as its canvas.

Since the game started in 1959, ten iterations have appeared and nine winners have been declared. The identities of these winners are unknown.

So is their reward, which is whispered to be NSA or CIA recruitment, vast wealth, immortality, or perhaps even the key to the secrets of the universe itself.

But the deeper you get, the more dangerous the game becomes. Players have died in the past—and the body count is rising.

And now the eleventh round is about to begin.

Enter K—a Rabbits obsessive who has been trying to find a way into the game for years. That path opens when K is approached by billionaire Alan Scarpio, rumored to be the winner of the sixth iteration. Scarpio says that something has gone wrong with the game and that K needs to fix it before Eleven starts, or the whole world will pay the price.

Five days later, Scarpio is declared missing.

Two weeks after that, K blows the deadline: Eleven begins.

And suddenly, the fate of the entire universe is at stake.

Reviews

  • Fun read, would recommend.

    4
    By PanicKans
    I’ve been familiar with the author for awhile now, via Tanis, The Last Movie, and of course Rabbits. I was a bit worried about how well it would translate from podcast to book, but I was definitely pleasantly surprised. It is a true stand alone story, and no prior knowledge of the podcast is necessary…. And honestly, if forced to choose, the book is far more streamlined, edge of the seat, addictive entertainment and IMO the better telling of the story. Think of your favorite book/movie franchise, and how the books are generally always better…. I would say this is a similar situation. Either way, great read for those who enjoy the creepy and mysterious, with a lot of fast paced action, and overall, well written with likable characters.
  • Couldn’t put it down!

    5
    By JR Maze
    Great story! Keeps you turning the pages to find out what happens next! Hope to see more books like Rabbits in the future!
  • Totally sucked me in!

    5
    By Tia Fish
    Right from the beginning I was hooked! But maybe I’m biased, I love anything & everything by Nic & Terry. This story makes you feel like other worlds are possible. Of course, I’m a believer & this confirms it. The best modern Lovecraft story you can get! Not that Lovecraft is ever old.
  • This was a ride!!

    5
    By Bcjenkins
    Characters 4/5 Plot 5/5 Storytelling/Writing 4/5 Enjoyment 5/5 Atmosphere 5/5 I absolutely loved this. "Rabbits" feels like it was written for someone like me. You may find you enjoy this one too if: -you were always good at those games of "find six things different in this picture" as a kid -you enjoy finding correlations and coincidences and patterns -you enjoy "weird" movies like "Donnie Darko" or pseudoscience shows like "Fringe" Definitely going to be keeping an eye out for more from this author. This was a smash-hit of a debut!
  • Fantastic Find!!

    4
    By Isisunit
    Great for fans of Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. This book takes you on a rollicking journey friends m the very beginning. Touching on numerous fields of study, there is a little something for everyone. Just when you think you've grasped the premise, everything you know shifts to another dimension of reality, leaving you adrift in more questions. With engaging characters and creative concepts, this story will keep you reading well past your bedtime!
  • Quite a roller coaster

    4
    By nospammers2010
    Wow, such a wonderfully twisted wild ride! I kept thinking in the early stages that I was so familiar with this story. I thought it must be based on a a short story I had read, but I had forgotten that I had listened to a podcast with the same name. The podcast whetted my thirst, but it didn’t completely prepare me for the intense journey that was Rabbits. You will find yourself frequently thinking you know what’s going on, only to discover that you are as wrong as the characters in the story. It is really challenging to put people through this many twists and turns without losing them. Terry Miles does an amazing job of this, giving us enough information to think we *might* know what’s going on and then wrenching that out from under us. Even better, the book has a twisted, but understandable conclusion—something SciFi has been lacking since the influence of Gardner Dozois left writers thinking they are supposed to be inconclusive. This book is thoroughly engaging and entertaining. The only thing preventing me from giving it my highest praise is that the characters seem unable to say “Hello” without dropping F-bombs. The cumulative effect goes past annoying to offensive, and adds a totally avoidable barrier to full enjoyment of the story. (Full disclosure: this book was provided to me free for pre-publication review.)