I received a gifted advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via blackcrow PR and the publishers.

Rabbits is a secret game (your not supposed to talk about it) that if spoken about can lead to injury, death or result I you disappearing never to be seen again!
The main character we meet is K. She is a gamer who notices patterns in things and great at following coincidences. She has a group of gaming friends who begun to help her figure out the game and access it.
The feeling of falling down a 'rabbit hole' occurred at times with this book - in a good way!
I loved the mention of old computer games, equipment, consoles, songs, games and general things from the 80s throughout this book. This book took me back to my childhood in many ways.
This book has you questioning what is reality and what is not.
This book will such you in (or down the rabbit hole) and keep you turning the pages quicker and quicker to find out what will happen next, what is real and make you question what is out there!
Fans of Stranger Things, Black Mirror or Lost will love this book!!
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Wow!

How do you write a review of Rabbits? Reading this book simply off the blurb, I soon found out it is a standalone book based on a podcast series of the same title. I’ve yet to listen to those as wanted to read the book in its own right first and some story it is.

It’s a book that has so much I love but a book I can see might frustrate others but me I can’t like it enough.

It’s got gaming, multiverses, there is conspiracy and cults and it’s completely mind bending. It’s fun and it’s serious. I’ve seen lots of comparisons to Ready Player One. Not for me it’s not. If it is like that it’s Ready Player One’s big brother with a massive slice of 80s horror aka stranger things thrown in and much more.

K is the protagonist who gets involved in a game called Rabbits, a game he’s asked to play by a mysterious billionaire, to save the world as we know but warned off by others,

The story soon becomes a frantic fast paced monster of a story as K and close friend Chloe meet every obstacle and craziness as the world we know changes in front of their eyes

It’s fun, it’s enchanting, absorbing and absolutely addictive. The muster plays out with such exuberance as k races against time to win the battle of good v bad

If you have any love of Anything mentioned in the review this really is a book for you!

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I am an avid podcast listener, Rabbits is a podcast that has been on my radar but I have never gotten around to listening to yet. When I saw there was a book out, I jumped at the chance to read it.

I think this may appeal to fans of Ready Player One as it has a retro video game vibe, but it also made me frequently think of The Matrix, so imagine the two of them mashed together and you will get a rough idea of what you would let yourself in for.

Rabbits is a game, but like Fight Club, you don’t really talk about it. K is obsessed with the game, he holds occasional workshops for fellow obsessives and the curious giving them hints and snippets of game lore. The game is all he can think about, however this isn’t Pokémon Go, this is an intelligent, cryptic and highly dangerous game. Players have disappeared, winners go dark, this is not a game you enter lightly.

K encounters billionaire and rumoured winner of Rabbits, Alan Scarpio. The eleventh version of the game is starting soon and Scarpio warns K that something is very wrong with the game. K needs to help in fixing it, but before he can figure out what to do Scarpio is declared missing. Is he another victim of this game?

Crazier things start to happen and K feels everything unraveling, he experiences things we could liken to the Berenstain/Berenstein bears conspiracy. What is real, is he safe and will he keep playing Rabbits?

I didn’t want to give too many spoilers away for this book but I really enjoyed it; it is a companion novel to the podcast so I definitely want to listen to that now to fill in the gaps in the lore. It is fast going and there is a lot of info to take in but I found it to be an entertaining and rewarding read.


Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review.

This is an incredibly fast-paced sci-fi thriller about a reality bending game. Kind of like Ready Player One meets Inception but there is so much more going on. I have to admit that some of the technical stuff was a little above me on occasion but I still enjoyed the book immensely and ripped through it at the speed of light. Hugely entertaining and definitely recommended.

Rabbits started out really well for me. It had the same vibe as Ready Player One because of the whole video game angle and while I enjoyed it for the most part, my attention started to wane just under the halfway mark. A lot of the tech bits went way over my head to be honest. That being said, I think If you liked Ready Player One you’ll enjoy Rabbits!

‘Some true stories are easier to accept if you can convince yourself that at least part of them are fictional. This is one of these stories.’

Where to begin with Rabbits? With one of my all-time favourite books being Ready Player One I was really excited to start this read. I think I need to learn to tailor my enthusiasm and adjust expectations though as that never seems to be a great starting point for a novel!

I tried to briefly explain the plot to my partner when I finished the book and I really struggled. There’s a mysterious game that’s focussed on things being… not quite right (think cryptic clues in the shape of items that haven’t been invented yet appearing in old games etc) and players are going missing. K is drafted by a famous billionaire into helping to win the game and save the world.

Rabbits was one of those rides that made (enough) sense while you were reading it and you were able to follow the logic along to the next step, however whenever you stopped reading and pulled yourself out of the world you didn’t really understand why all of those steps needed to be done to get to where we were. The action does rattle along at speed, and yet there were a lot of details and descriptions which were not needed and could have easily been edited down.

The plot is very much focused on the game and the ideas behind it and less about the characters and it really shows. K has so many odd quirks and problems but he doesn’t really seem to feel real in spite of these. I was annoyed that Chloe didn’t have a personality either; she’s the ‘hot gamer girl’ who was just used as ‘The Watson’ of the group to ask questions and help the reader understand what was going on. There is another female character introduced later in a kind of love-triangle, however she is written in exactly the same way so we didn’t feel ourselves routing strongly for either of them.

I personally got a little bit lost as to which elements were the game and which elements were the world ending – I would have perhaps liked a little more backstory into what the ‘normal’ iterations of the game were like so we had something to compare it to. I had a handle on the plot to about 80% when there’s a shift and it started to get complicated. When I got to around 90% I was wondering how it was going to wrap up and was half dreading it would end on a cliff hanger and a sequel. Then, all of a sudden we had a very neat ending in an almost ‘it was all a dream – or was it?’ kind of a fashion which I didn’t really enjoy and didn’t sit right with the rest of the book.

Overall Rabbits was a disappointment for me – it’s an intriguing premise but I don’t think it was executed on the same level to make it a stand-out read which is a shame. I’ll perhaps give the podcast a try instead! Thank you to NetGalley & Pan Macmillan for the chance to read the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This book has got to be one of the most mind-bending things that I have ever read. It's hard to describe what it's about because there's so much to the entire story but I'll do my best.

It's about a man named K, who has been obsessed with a secret underground game that you're not allowed to talk about called Rabbitts. The game itself is mainly based on the following of discrepancies, solving one mystery after another until you win.

K is visited by a famous billionaire who was the supposed winner of the 6th iteration of the game who tells him that something is deeply wrong and he needs to fix it before the next iteration of the game starts. Except the game starts too quicker and players start to die and disappear before K can figure out what's wrong. You follow his confusing and massive journey to fix this problem.

While it's hard to describe the story itself it's also hard to say what the themes are. I would say it's a story of determination and willingness to try and save the world while everything falls apart.

The story itself is extremely captivating, it's confusing enough that you are just as confused as the main characters but able to follow. Mills has a way of writing that makes you feel disorientated just as the characters do.

The description of the setting and events is as mystifying as it is vivid. As things collapse you feel the pull, the danger and the fear. One thing I can say about this is that it certainly is not predictable.

The characters were complex and some likeable whereas others rightfully so we're not. I like how easily you can get into the headspace of K. I do think you're drawn into this book a lot more because of its plot than its characters.

The science in this book was somehow complicated yet digestible. I was able to get a good enough grasp of the science without getting too confused even though the topic itself is confusing.

I also enjoyed the many pop culture references, it was nice to we the little easter eggs or pick stuff out as the characters did. This is also why I enjoyed the chapter titles so much. I don't think any books chapter titles have given me as much joy as these have.

The only thing I did dislike was the ending. I cannot help but feel dissatisfied, with so many questions unanswered and things that seemed to happen without any build-up it fell flat for me.

Despite this, I love the idea of the game and am very ready to listen to the podcast as well.

There are no two ways about it, this is not your run of the mill book. I don't suggest you try to read it unless you have at least some basic knowledge and interest in gaming. You won't follow it and I doubt you'd enjoy it.
K is the main protagonist. He has been looking for a way into the game of Rabbits since his teenage years. How to you start playing? Maybe he is playing. He is obsessively attracted to patterns in everyday life, some of which may provide a way into the game. I liked K. His life is basically a mess with plenty of baggage and no real purpose except for this obsession with Rabbits. However, underneath he is a good guy.
The plot itself is quite convoluted and I won't claim that I followed it all. However I got the basics which came together well enough for me.
So if you fancy a challenge and have a mind that enjoys something different then give this a try. I suspect you'll love it or hate it!
I received a free copy of this book via Netgalley.

Play the game, save the world.
No pressure, right?

Well, if it’s as hard as understanding this book then we’re all doomed!
Rabbits follows K, a self confessed gaming nerd who is obsessed with an underground, real-world puzzle game commonly known as Rabbits. The idea behind this book was really unique and its what made me want to read this book. I really enjoyed the references throughout, as someone who grew up with retro games and it was so fun picking up on the little hints.

While the book had a interesting concept, the plot overall went from intriguing to strange, but I’m still liking it to WTF? Towards the end of the book, the plot just digressed into a seemingly never ending scientific explanation and it got pretty tedious. I really wish it had of kept it more about the game itself & the side characters and how they played in to everything, because there was so much that I feel we didn’t get to learn about those aspects. Maybe it’s my fault for not being more into science? So take that with a pinch of salt.

The characters were what kept me going to the end. I enjoyed K as a main character! He was likeable, but also flawed and unreliable, which kept me paying attention to everything he said and made him all the more interesting.
Chloe was a nice character, but she did kind of fall into the generic “token hot gamer girl” towards the end.
As for the rest of the characters, we really didn’t get to know them much, but what we did get of them was great! I just wish there had of been more.

Overall, this book had a lot of potential and I appreciate the unique ideas and passion behind it! Does that mean I understand it? No.

Rabbis is an underground game, no one really knows where it comes from or when it started but one thing is known and that is that it’s dangerous! The further into the game you get the more deadly it becomes.
K our main character has been contacted by the reclusive billionaire Alan Scarpio, who is thought to have been a winner of a precious irritation of the game, to let them know that something has gone wrong with the game and that K needs to help him fix it before the 11th game begins or the world will be doomed.
The day after Scarpio approached K, he goes missing, without a trace. This leaves more questions than answers and 2 weeks go by, the 11th iteration of the game begins and K hasn’t fixed it. Rabbits players are disappearing at an unprecedented rate.
The fate of the world is at risk and only K can stop it.

Fix the game and save the world, this all sounds straight forward until you understand what Rabbis is and you find yourself spiralling down a rabbit hole, following the coincidences and the indiscretions around you to find the answer. The door is open and you just need to find a way in.

This book is both understandable and baffling all at once. You start to think you understand what’s going on and then it turns into another avenue, keeping you in your toes as you read. I enjoyed this for a while but the closer to the end of the book I got and the more scientific it got really started to throw me. I understood what was happening but felt it was almost too technical for my enjoyment.

The pace of the book for me was odd, it made it feel like everything was all happening over a short period of time, only a few weeks, but in actuality it’s over a much longer time. There is nothing wrong with the period of time it happens over but I just didn’t feel the pace of the writing matched up to it as it’s written in a suspenseful way.

I enjoyed the concept of this book, and having not heard any of Miles podcasts before reading this the whole idea was fresh and intriguing. I loved how the ‘clues’ linked to each other, that it wasn’t simple and only those who were playing would understand.
The whole secrecy element and the ‘you don’t talk about the game’ mentality made it seem dangerous.

This book is a good read, however for me I just feel like I was thinking too much while reading and trying to wrap my head round the concepts. This took away from the enjoyment factor for me.
If you like to have your brain scrambled while you read and enjoy deep thinking this is for you.

I’d recommend this to readers who like things like inception, ready player one and anyone who is into parallel universes, conspiracy theory’s and time hopping.

Wow! That was a crazy ride. Rabbits isthe most mind boggling read I've come across in a while. The idea of Play The Game, Save The World reminded me a lot of Ready Player One while the story felt a bit like the movie Inception but it was so much better than both of these.
I'll admit there were times I really had a very limited grasp on what was going on but that didn't stop me enjoying Rabbits immensely