This was an absolutely fantastic read. The perfect mix of thriller, horror, nostalgia and well drawn characters. Set in a small town on the outskirts of San Jose, an arcade game starts to bring out the dark side of everyone who looks into it's captivating display. The story is really well paced and the characters are compelling. The final third is nerve shattering as the town descends further and further into anarchy, I'll be recommending it to everyone!

A never heard of videogame shows up to an arcade in a small town and devastation and chaos follows; sign me up! Polybius was such a fun and creepy read and quite the page-turner. The action scenes were so engrossing and left me on the edge of my seat, wanting more. The main characters did seem a little under developed and I didn't really love any of them but was rooting for them nonetheless. *Thank you to NetGalley and Gallery Books for the ARC of this book.*

Really interesting concept! I could totally see this being adapted into a movie or TV show -- some of the imagery feels cinematic for sure. The writing style wasn't my favorite and I got a little bored with the action towards the end but I did feel compelled to keep reading and find out what was going to happen!

Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC!

The writing style of this failed to grab me, the expository dialogue just fell kind of flat, in terms of telling instead of showing the characters interests and motivations. An interesting story though