"The Rule of Thoughts"

"The Rule of Thoughts", by James Dashner, is the sequel to "The Eye of Minds". It picks up right where the story left off, which I love, and has all the same intensity to it that the first book does. Michael, the teenage hacker, coder, gamer, is a little more than leery to go back into the VirtNet after his faceoff with Kaine. While he is trying to get used to his new life, and body, he decides he is going to have to track down his friends in the real world. He soon finds out though that hiding in the real world is a lot harder than in the VirtNet. There is nothing to manipulate to hide yourself, or easily transport you to a different game. Michael thinks that he has it figured out, but as soon as he contacts Sarah her parents are kidnapped. The only clue to their whereabouts is a note from Kaine. Michael is helpless. With Kaine chasing him in the VirtNet and the police chasing him in reality, the only person he can think to turn to is Agent Weber.  She tells Michael, Bryson, and Sarah that she has a plan to destroy Kaine and save Sarah's parents. They have to go back into the VirtNet  and do some very illegal things. Is she really going to help him though? Or is she just using their skills to attain her own goals?

Dashner does it again with another non-stop thrilling page turner. This book will most likely take a few days to a week to get through. It's one of those books that when you're not reading it, your thinking about it, and when you're not thinking about it, you are subconsciously playing scenes from it in the back of your mind, and when you're not doing that then you are wondering what the characters are doing while you're not there to keep them company. I didn't think is was AS good as the first one, but it definitely comes close. You will need to read the first book for this one to make sense, and there is a third book coming out this fall I believe. So that will be on here then. And as always, let me know what you think!