The only break from the twelve-hour energy harvest the prisoners have to endure is the. The Arc suffers from being forced to tie up a lot of plot in not a lot of space and could have benefitted from being longer, to give the story, and especially the characters, more room to breathe.īen Oliver has a knack for writing interesting action scenes and creates interesting situations for his cast to be in, but some further development of his cast is sorely missed. The Block is a place where reality and simulation start to blur.

When they do get some more page time, it is often for the purposes of exposition. Ben Oliver The Block (The Loop Trilogy) Audio CD by Ben Oliver (Author) Audio CD 25.96 2 New from 25.96 MP3 CD Format In the second book of The Loop trilogy, Luka is trapped in a fate worse than death. This comes at the expense of characterisation, with most of the cast barely getting more than a few lines of dialogue. The book is propulsive in its writing, never slowing down in a race to the finish. In the second book of The Loop trilogy, Luka is trapped in a fate worse. A sortable list in reading order and chronological order with publication date, genre, and rating. Read 201 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. The series has often been compared to The Matrix and the central concept, that Happy intends using humans as fuel, is identical. Series list: The Loop Trilogy (3 Books) by Ben Oliver.

Luka, alongside the small group of allies he has gathered, must defeat the AI named Happy which has control of much of the world.

Finishing the trilogy which started in The Loop and continued in The Block, The Arc concludes the story of Luka Kane.

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