Like I said before, Simon’s connection with Kat motivated him to discover and save her from the Otherworld. These chapters were detrimental to the success and overall enjoyment of this book, and were very needed to understand how Simon shaped up to become the man he is in Otherworld. While the “Jewish nose”, is a HUGE stereotype in the Jewish community, I found his jokes about his grandfather and his appearance “because of his religion” very funny.ĭuring the first few (three?) chapters of the book, Simon described his home-life, past relationship with Kat, and other very important things that had happened to him in his past, that would somehow affect the story in one way or another. Even though there were a lot more “main” characters than you would typically expect in a YA novel, they all were really great to read about and had a lot of connections with both Kat and Simon.īecause I am jewish, I really appreciated the humour surrounding his “kishka”.

There were also some characters that were vaguely described at the beginning of the book that were reintroduced during the end of the novel, but with an explanation and more detail (for example, Busara and Marlow). However, in Otherworld, there were a lot of minor characters that impacted the storyline greatly, and contributed significantly to the long term plot line. In YA books, there are typically 3-5 main characters in a novel that the author will focus on throughout the book. Kat, Simon’s love interest, motivated Simon to do basically everything in this novel, therefore she played a huge role in this book. His emotion was written out so clearly by Segel and Miller, which helped myself connect with him from the beginning. Simon Eaton, the main protagonist, is one of my new favourite YA characters and was a fantastic narrator. I absolutely loved all of the characters in this novel right from the very first chapter. I was literally hooked in from the synopsis on Goodreads! While I have some interest in Ready Player One in the future, this book appealed to me more because of the romance/real life aspect.

WOW! This book was by far one of the best dystopian books I have ever read. It’s everything you’ve ever wanted.Īnd it’s about to change humanity forever. They promise Otherworld will make all your dreams come true. They say it’s addictive-that you’ll want to stay forever. The company says Otherworld is amazing-like nothing you’ve ever seen before.

So, when I found out about “Otherworld” by Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller, I drove over to Indigo to pick up this book! And let me tell you… it did not dissapoint! Welcome back to Reading, Reading, Reading!įor the past few weeks I have been wanting to read an interesting dystopia/sci-fi/alternate reality book that was not “Ready Player One” (don’t have much interest in reading this right now). “It’s not virtual reality if it changes who you are. “No, see, that’s the big secret,” she whispers.

Jason segel and kirsten miller