Book Review: End Game The Calling

Endgame, The Calling is written by James Fey and Nils Johnson-Shelton. Endgame is a great book with many twist and turns but I'm not going to bore you with a bland summary of the book. Instead I am going to give you a brief summary and then talk about what I thought made the book extremely interesting. Endgame is basically Hunger Games but around the world, there are twelve tribes and it’s a race for three keys whoever gets them all first wins, the losers and there tribes all perish. So that’s about the briefest summary I can physically give now on to the really cool stuff. One of the main things that I find interesting about Endgame is its perspective because it never stays the same, the point of view keeps jumping from one character to another. I personally love this idea because you aren’t stuck to the view and ideas of just one person, you can see the world and how others react from different eyes. Another thing In Endgame that is very interesting is the idea of puzzles. To find each key every opponent is given a clue but all the clues are different, so it makes it harder because they can’t just cheat off of one another. Once they do solve the clue they move on to the next clue and then the next one until they find the first key, then they move on to the next clue to find the next key. Now I know some books do this just so that they can stretch the series out but James Fey and Nils Johnson-Shelton don’t do that. The reason that they do it in my opinion is because it makes it so that the game is a challenge. They don’t just say “oh here is the key have slaughter fest and see who gets there first”. No they make so that each character has to deal with their own dilemma. Now the other interesting thing is that they put puzzles also for the reader in the book. Now the puzzles can range from pictures to symbols instead of page number’s so it’s a really interesting idea. And the best part about that is that James Fey and Nils Johnson-Shelton say if someone does solve all the puzzles that there is a prize waiting for them once the series has finished. And I personally think that is a cool idea. So with my review of Endgame, The Calling  I want to finish by saying that it is an amazing book with great writing and even a little challenge for their readers.