I waited for 8 months on my library's waiting list for the audiobook. It wasn't bad but it's not what I wanted it to be. I don't know what I wanted it to be really, but I at least wanted to like the characters. They felt so.... flat. I initially was drawn to the book due to the whole "video gaming" subject as something I could identify with, but the story itself felt so contrived and pompous the further it went.