Book summary by chapter of The Game of Lives. Includes spoilers to the end of the book.  Michael never asked to be created, nor to bear the weight of being human without ever truly being one. Each death, each choice, made him more real than the code that shaped him. In the end, he chose compassion over vengeance, sparing Kaine when justice screamed for blood. But it was in that moment—facing the void of his own origin—that he finally understood who he was: someone willing to

Book summary by chapter of The Rule of Thoughts. Includes spoilers to the end of the book.  Michael went from code to flesh, but the most painful prison wasn’t physical—it was guilt for living a stolen life. In his cell, cut off from everyone and from himself, he repeats names he’s no longer sure were real: Helga, Gabby, his parents. But when he hears that Helga now leads the free Tangents, something breaks. For the first time in years, hope stops feeling like a glitch in the

Reading order of The Mortality Doctrine series by James Dashner. Contains general spoilers and technological progression through to the end of the trilogy.  In VirtNet, death is just a line of code… until it isn’t. Reading this saga in order means navigating a world where memories can be installed, souls reprogrammed, and truth compressed into bytes. Michael isn’t fighting for his life—he’s fighting for what it means to be human. Michael and Sarah rise from an open book amid