This is a love letter to every gamer,geek,nerd & 80s pop culture enthusiast out there. 
 There are a ton of references to video games, consoles, tv shows, movies, science fiction & fantasy in this very entertaining story, and while sometimes the author just uses these references just for the sake of it and then drops them, it still was very enjoyable for me and very very nostalgic. Just talking about Joust was well worth the trip :) 
 The setting of the story is a mixture of World of Warcraft, Facebook and Virtual Reality all dialed up to eleven, yet I found it to be very plausible and kinda creepy. 
 (view spoiler)[I didn't really feel or care for the love interest and things slowed down a lot after finding the 2nd key. Wade's infiltration of the IOI's HQ was hard to believe tbh. (hide spoiler)]