Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club discussion

We will be reading Rabbits beginning on April 4.
Anyone is welcome to join. We will read at our own pace, but comment here using spoiler tags.

Conspiracies abound in this surreal and yet all-too-real technothriller in which a deadly underground alternate reality game might just be altering reality itself, set in the same world as the popular Rabbits podcast.

It's an average work day. You've been wrapped up in a task, and you check the clock when you come up for air—4:44 pm. You go to check your email, and 44 unread messages have built up. With a shock, you realize it is April 4th—4/4. And when you get in your car to drive home, your odometer reads 44,444. Coincidence? Or have you just seen the edge of a rabbit hole?

Rabbits is a mysterious alternate reality game so vast it uses our global reality as its canvas. Since the game first started in 1959, ten iterations have appeared and nine winners have been declared. Their identities are unknown. So is their reward, which is whispered to be NSA or CIA recruitment, vast wealth, immortality, or perhaps even the key to unlocking the secrets of the universe itself. But the deeper you get, the more deadly the game becomes. Players have died in the past—and the body count is rising.

And now the eleventh round is about to begin. Enter K—a Rabbits obsessive who has been trying to find a way into the game for years. That path opens when K is approached by billionaire Alan Scarpio, the alleged winner of the sixth iteration. Scarpio says that something has gone wrong with the game and that K needs to fix it before Eleven starts or the whole world will pay the price.

Five days later, Scarpio is declared missing. Two weeks after that, K blows the deadline and Eleven begins. And suddenly, the fate of the entire universe is at stake.

Who is in?
Vicki
Vanessa

You ready to start this one?

I started this one and am listening on audible.
I am at about 30%
It is interesting in a weird way. I definitely am interested in seeing what will happen next.
It has to do with the gaming subculture, which I am not into, but it is definitely accessible.

Were you able to start this one?

I just finished. I really liked it. Especially the pop-culture references.

I just finished too. I really liked it, but it is hard to explain.
I really liked the pop culture references too.
I wasn't good at figuring out the clues and pretty much needed the book to tell me everything. lol
I also found it interesting how ambiguous some of the things were. Like the narrator, I couldn't tell if it was male or female. But it didn't detract from the story - just something else interesting about the writing.