Reviews for The wedding game

The average rating for The wedding game based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-04-21 00:00:00 Antoine Martinez The detectives never meet any of the suspects face to face. Cutting edge computer hijinks from 20 years ago, complete with a glossary of computer terms, most still relevant and a few have fallen by the wayside. I had no idea that the clumsy quotes at the chapter headings were from not just an actual computer game but the granddaddy of computer RPGs; they were fascinating on their own. The author makes a fair amount of complexity, easy to follow.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-02-26 00:00:00 Conor Mcgarry I enjoyed this book quite a bit. The plot has an interesting element - the suspects in the murder are spread across the country and connected via an email list (focused on the topic of video game design). Because of this, it doesn't have the usual sleuthing you expect in a cozy-style mystery. But Anneke and Karl manage to find a way to do some sleuthing, by taking it online. Intriguing! The computer components are dated in some ways - for example, the way Anneke dissects their web sites (the details of what a web site would contain back then), the constant references to Altavista as her main search engine, being startled when something turns up a couple hundred hits (today we'd be shocked if it was that few). But others are still with us: private email lists focused on narrow topics, newsgroups like comp.lang.c++, and others. And the debate about game design for girls is pretty similar to what it was then (except perhaps the percentage of games for girls is higher, and the violence in games overall is higher as well). Overall, it doesn't detract from the story - and the nascent 'social network' they move in is an essential component of the plot.