Author: Tom Hoyle
Type: Paperback
Read: 17th June - 1st July 2017
Rating: 4/5
Published: 23rd February 2017 by Pan Macmillan
The Challenge by Tom Hoyle, bestselling author of Thirteen, is a gripping adventure thriller about an online game gone wrong. Ben's been grieving for his best friend, Will, who suddenly disappeared from their tiny village a year ago. But when twins Sam and Jack begin at the school, things start to look up. Cool, good-looking and popular, they draw Ben into their world and introduce him to The Challenge. What first appears to be a fun internet game quickly turns sinister as Ben's tasks become wilder and more dangerous, starting to raise questions over Will's disappearance. But once you're involved with The Challenge, it's very hard to get out ...
Okay, so reasons I like reading Tom Hoyle books.
- They come in pretty colours and the page edges also match the book
- Tom Hoyle isn't his real name and I want to work out who it really is.
I was so excited to read a new Tom Hoyle book. I loved his last three and really had high hopes for this one. Now I was slightly let down. I'm not sure why perhaps I went into it with too high of hopes.
But I found the story dragged a little and that at times it didn't make all that much sense. The challenge is a "game" played but some crazy twins who it turns out is a game passed down through generations of the same family. The twins, are drawn to Ben and as a boy who isn't one to stand out he enjoys the attention they give him. The fact he no longer beomes invisable. But things aren't always what they seem. The twins know what happened to Bens' friend Will and how he died. But can Ben work out the truth before they take another victim.
As I said I do like this writer alot but I just couldn't get into this book all that much.
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