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ESCAPE ROOM
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SAVE THE WORLD TODAY?
AUTHOR CHRISTOPHER EDGE
PUBLISHER NOSY CROW
PRICE £7.99 / $11.99
RELEASE OUT NOW
Ami Oswald is a clever, if otherwise averageseeming Generation Z girl hanging out with a few newfound friends in an escape room. Their host tells them they need to solve the puzzles to save the world, and they’re all too keen to get stuck in – this escape room is particularly convincing in its detail, after all. After cracking the first puzzle and advancing past a chess-playing automaton, the escape room opens up into a Tardis-like series of chambers containing devious problems that demand solutions from the five young players before they can move onto the next one. Each new puzzle is increasingly realistic and threatening, so that by the time they’ve passed a huge library improbably contained in the bowels of the building, the team are having their doubts, to say the least, about whether they’re playing a game or whether their fate and the fate of the world really is in their hands.