Rabbits: A Novel
A deadly underground game might just be altering reality itself in this all-new adventure set in the world of the hit Rabbits podcast.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL • “A wild ride . . . impossible to put down.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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 p.m. You check your email, and 44 unread messages have built up. With a shock, you realize the date is April 4—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 the entire world as its canvas.
Since the game started in 1959, ten iterations have appeared and nine winners have been declared. The identities of these winners are unknown.
So is their reward, which is whispered to be NSA or CIA recruitment, vast wealth, immortality, or perhaps even the key to the secrets of the universe itself.
But the deeper you get, the more dangerous 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, rumored to be the 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: Eleven begins.
And suddenly, the fate of the entire universe is at stake.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL • “A wild ride . . . impossible to put down.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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 p.m. You check your email, and 44 unread messages have built up. With a shock, you realize the date is April 4—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 the entire world as its canvas.
Since the game started in 1959, ten iterations have appeared and nine winners have been declared. The identities of these winners are unknown.
So is their reward, which is whispered to be NSA or CIA recruitment, vast wealth, immortality, or perhaps even the key to the secrets of the universe itself.
But the deeper you get, the more dangerous 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, rumored to be the 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: Eleven begins.
And suddenly, the fate of the entire universe is at stake.
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Community Reviews
Video games! RPGs! 80s pop-cultural references! Oh my! I enjoyed this book for many of the same reasons I enjoyed Ready Player One, but Rabbits also has this weird twist in reality that I really enjoyed. Much like the podcast - of which I am an ardent fan - there is a lot of "what's real" plot lines going on. And it gets confusing. But that's really part of the charm because that's really the point. A very fun read.
I always forget how much I LOVE (all caps!) stories like "Rabbits" by Terry Miles until I come across one by chance and then spend the next 24 hours down a rabbit hole (pardon the pun) of conspiracies, mysteries, and multi-verses. I could not get enough of the multitude of real world references to "inconsistencies" like the Mandela Effect, the Berenstain Bears Conspiracy, and the never made Shazam movie with Sinbad...all things that my friends and I have talked about many times over the years. What's true? What isn't? What's Possible?
"Rabbits" is one crazy ride for K, Chloe, and her many accomplices throughout the story. K and her crew are trying to find answers to the many, many questions they continue to ask as the dangerous adventure continues. Has the underground and rarely spoken of "Game" started again? If so, is there actually something going wrong with it? Who can we trust? Who can we not?
This was SUCH a fun book to read. I did not want it to end! I especially didn't want the ending when I got to it and felt...disappointed? No, that's too strong a word. I should have seen it coming? I guess that might better describe what I was feeling. I don't even want to hint at what to expect, but this would have been a SOLID 5 Star book had the ending been more... ... ...just more! Though my feelings about that are strong, I still want to read it all over again!
A HUGE Thank You to NetGalley & Random House/Ballantine Publishing for the opportunity to read and review this book. I'm going to go buy a physical copy for myself now.
"Rabbits" is one crazy ride for K, Chloe, and her many accomplices throughout the story. K and her crew are trying to find answers to the many, many questions they continue to ask as the dangerous adventure continues. Has the underground and rarely spoken of "Game" started again? If so, is there actually something going wrong with it? Who can we trust? Who can we not?
This was SUCH a fun book to read. I did not want it to end! I especially didn't want the ending when I got to it and felt...disappointed? No, that's too strong a word. I should have seen it coming? I guess that might better describe what I was feeling. I don't even want to hint at what to expect, but this would have been a SOLID 5 Star book had the ending been more... ... ...just more! Though my feelings about that are strong, I still want to read it all over again!
A HUGE Thank You to NetGalley & Random House/Ballantine Publishing for the opportunity to read and review this book. I'm going to go buy a physical copy for myself now.
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