“I have a Kindle, and one of the features I use a lot is the % finished.
This book doesn’t really get into the titular game, Soft & Cuddly, until you’re 75% through. Which also includes research notes, so it’s really like 80-85% through the book.
There was some interesting insight into the world of gaming in the Great Britain and the ZX Spectrum. But I don’t think I was quite there when it came to tying in the Falklands and all that to the Spectrum and then to this game.
I was pretty excited by this title. I’d never heard of Soft & Cuddly before, and just looking at screenshots made me very curious about its creation and about the game itself. I felt like I didn’t hear as much about the game or its creator as I wanted to.
That said, writers write the books they want to write. In this case, I think the writer did.
Where does that leave us? I guess with me saying it’s not a bad book, but it wasn’t the book I was looking for.
Also, titular. I said it once, but I wanted to say it again. Titular.
Ha!”