Ravenscroft Conspiracy – Vic Connor

I received an e-ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.  Zero Stars I made it through 25% of this book before quitting. The premise of the story is interesting: Kid falsely convicted of his own parents’ murders escapes death row when recruited to help test virtual world, virtual world also full of conspiracies. This is the kind of fiction I like. I’m often pretty forgiving about what I’ll read. The execution of the story was unbearable. The main character Nico is obnoxious and obnoxiously written. He’s smart (genius level IQ….), tall, strong, has a perfect memory, religious, blah blah blah snooze snooze snooze. The book did a lot of telling, but not showing. Descriptions of other characters are uninteresting and one-dimensional. I rolled my eyes just about once per page. I had to stop reading or I was going to hurt myself from all the eyerolling. The plot plods along. A quarter of the way through the book and he finally gets into the virtual world. This is essentially the third scene. It takes a quarter of the book to reach the third scene. Zzzz. I wanted to like it, but unfortunately, Ravenscroft Conspiracy just isn’t for me. A version of this review first appeared on Goodreads on March 21.

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