And it’s 400ish pages, so if you need a book for the beach this could be it! It’s two people navigating friendship while working together.

But I don’t think you have to be a gamer to get this novel, don’t worry. I was a PC gamer when I was younger – mostly simulators like Sim City, the Sims and Transport Tycoon, but also Commander Keen and some of the other shareware games of that era, so I’ve played some of the games that Sam and Sadie played when they are kids and I understood the sort of games they were trying to create even if they weren’t my sort of games. I can’t really say too much more than that because it’s going to give to much away. You watch Sam and Sadie grow and develop and try to help each other through life’s challenges. But I’m so glad I stuck with it because it is just wonderful – even if there was some crying involved, thankfully not on a train though. You all know that I’ve been reading mostly stuff with happy endings or resolutions for the last *checks calendar* two years or so and this took me a little while to read because I wasn’t sure I was going to like how it all worked it. You follow Sam and Sadie over thirty years – as they play games, design games and grow up, always linked together but sometimes pulling in different directions. This chance meeting starts them on the road to success as video game designers.

Then they didn’t see each other for years – until one day Sam sees Sadie on the subway platform. Sam and Sadie first met when they were children. Making a change from the run of BotW picks recently, this week I’ve gone for something (pretty much) new and also that’s not a romance or a mystery.

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