Book Report: The Eye Of Minds By James Dashner

For my 2nd book report, I read the book called The Eye of Minds which was created by the author, James Dashner, who is known for creating the Maze Runner series. The perspective book is told in is third-person omniscient which uses no use of I and no reference to self which is the perspective Dashner usually writes in. The main characters of The Eye of Minds are Michael, Bryson, Sarah, and Kaine. Michael is the main protagonist of the story who is a gamer and is hired by the VNS to find Kaine in the Vire Net and destroy this dangerous program called the Mortality Doctrine. Michael, in the end of the book, was revealed that he was a tangent, a program, all along instead of an actual human being who he thought he was most of his life. Michael’s …show more content…
Michael’s other friend , Bryson , who is also a human gamer has a skill of creating gadgets such as the tracer that keeps them hidden from people. Also Bryson likes to be sarcastic at times and tells some jokes when the feels like it. Kaine is the main antagonist of the book and is a tangent that is called the best gamer of the Viri Net,beating the gamer known as Gunner Skale. Kaine’s goal is to turn is his fellow tangents into humans by implementing the Mortality Doctrine. To do this, he gets subjects to explore the Path as a test to see if they're able to become human. The minor characters of this book include Helga, Gunner Skale, and Ronika. The exposition of The Eye of Minds is when Michael was captured by the VNS in the Wake, the real world, and was hired to find Kaine in the Vire-Net and stop the the program Mortality Doctrine with his friends, Bryson and Sarah. The …show more content…
This book made me feel like I was in a video game and I was fighting virtual things to save my life. I felt a sense of intensity for the action sequences, humor form jokes coming out of the characters every now and then, and surprised by all of the plot twists in this book that makes you wanna read the next one in the series. The characters were actually realistic for their time which was in the future because how they reacted, how they felt, and their emotions to each problem. The themes of the book were definitely sci-fi, action, teamwork, and more. I definitely recommend this book to 7th graders out there if they want an action packed, intense video game experience that will get you in love with the book in the very first chapter. Overall I would give this book 5 out of 5