Networked: Volume 2

LK Chapman

Sep 2014 · Networked Book 2 · LK Chapman

About this ebook

Video game designers Nick and Dan find their half-finished project suddenly replaced with a game that is finished – and brilliant. Soon players everywhere find themselves immersed in an incredible new virtual world. But events in the game become increasingly sinister, taking over the lives of players and blurring the lines with reality.

As Nick's life is thrown into turmoil, he fears for his friend Dan, and his wife Lily, and he finds himself increasingly asking: where has the game come from? Who made it? What is it for? And most importantly … What does it want from them?

Reviews

"I never thought that a book mostly centered around a video game would be so rich in content and so entertaining."  Kathryn Bennett for Readers' Favorite

"Chapman has a brilliantly unique style of story-telling that plays and tests with your every emotion in each and every chapter." Jim Murdoch for Mojomums.co.uk

"It’s definitely one you will be talking about with your friends." Samantha Dewitt (Rivera) for Readers' Favorite

What readers are saying:

"Well thought out and wonderfully written"

"Seriously gripping and intensely involved"

"I can't recommend it enough to fans of the more thoughtful brand of sci-fi"

"A book to really get lost in"

"The attention to detail in the characters state of mind is incredible"

"Couldn't put it down!"

Networked contains several chapters depicting a character's journey with depression. Some readers may find this content upsetting.

Ratings and reviews

Networked is a real page turner. Each chapter left me dying to read the next one and the pace of the story is very well balanced. It’s packed with intense scenes but also has intimate moments where the characters’ personalities shine through. The story covers some pretty diverse topics, including artificial intelligence and violence in video games but also depression, intimate relationships and even questions what it means to be alive. There are regular flashbacks to an earlier period when one of the main characters, Lily, was struggling with depression and I particularly liked how these moments were echoed in the present day and also seeing the ways in which Lily has and hasn't changed since then. Despite being classed as sci-fi it’s not really like most sci-fi that I have read before and I would definitely recommend it to people who wouldn't normally read sci-fi.

About the author

My full name is Louise Katherine Chapman, and I am a psychological thriller author (although I've also written a sci-fi novel!) I have always been fascinated by the strength, peculiarities and extremes of human nature, and the way that no matter how strange, cruel or unfathomable the actions of other people can sometimes be, there is always a reason for it, some sequence of events to be unravelled.

After graduating from the University of Southampton in 2008 with a degree in psychology, I worked for a year as a psychologist at a consultancy company. In 2009 I had to give up work after developing chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) - a long term health condition that causes debilitating physical and mental exhaustion. After a few years I thankfully managed to regain enough energy to spend some time volunteering for the mental health charity Mind, and eventually to begin writing. Although my life is still very limited by having CFS I am so grateful to be able to write and for the support of my readers.

I live in Hampshire with my husband and young son. When I'm not writing I enjoy walks in the woods, video games, and spending time with family and friends.

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