Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline is the sequel to Ready Player One. Ready Player Two begins very shortly after the events of the first novel where the main character and his friends now own the oasis, it starts with Wade Watts(our main character) discovering writing on the golden easter egg he found in the last book. It gives the location of a vault containing a new OASIS headset, which is called the ONI headset or the OASIS Neural Interface headset. This console jacks your brain directly into the OASIS, giving you the five senses inside the OASIS, which allows you to taste, feel, hear, see, and smell anything inside the game, but with a twelve-hour time limit, after that, you begin to enter a coma, one that could last for years and result in brain damage. He immediately falls in love with it, and so do two more of his board members, but the third, his girlfriend, vetoes the idea, trying to convince the others that it’s not something the world needs, her attempt at persuasion fails and they release the ONI headset to the public. After this, the book fast-forwarded almost four years, in that time, the ONI headset became extremely popular, however, a new easter egg hunt was introduced into the OASIS, an easter egg hunt that requires seven blue crystals. Wade cannot figure out how to find the first crystal, so he just pays someone one billion dollars to find it for him. After her successfully finds someone for this job, he comes into a meeting with his board members, while this meeting happens, his administrator robes disappear from his inventory. Anorak the NPC appears, and he reveals himself as an AI replica of the founder of the OASIS, James Halliday, and gives the group a task to find all the crystals in under twelve hours, if they don’t, everyone logged into the oasis will overclock on their ONI headset, causing brain damage and comas. The main problem I have with this book is the pacing. Throughout the book, the pacing is extremely fast and feels crammed, this is most likely because the characters are trying to find seven items in less than twelve hours rather than having to find three items in a span of two years. For example, when they visit a planet dedicated to the musical artist Prince, the pacing feels excessively fast. On this planet, they have to find ten items to fight seven iterations of Prince, each item takes at most, two pages to find, this rushes the section dramatically and takes away from the first book's charm. I recommend you read this book if you liked the first book, but if not, don’t.
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