This book is well written, but I did not enjoy it as much as I was hoping. For some reason, I just couldn't connect. It is definitely a very interesting plot, scary actually. Scary in the sense that it is futuristic, but not too far into the future. A world like this isnt that far from being nonfiction. 
 The main character is in a video game, inside a 'coffin' that transports his mind into virtual reality (think like the boxes in Avatar, that puts their mind in the blue alien bodies). Somebody is terrorizing people in the 'virt-net' and making it so they cannot ever wake up from the virtual world, until they end up killing themselves by removing their core. Or at least, thats what you think happens. It is really an interesting read, but I just wasn't super engaged. Possibly because I do mostly audiobooks, and maybe the narrator just wasn't doing it for me. Not sure. But, I am going to continue the series to see where it ends up. James Dashner is a great writer, the Maze Runner series is genius. So this series will probably be good too, hopefully I get more engaged.