Here we have the (apparently) final book in this (apparently) trilogy. As you might have guessed from the title, this is the part where the main characters find a village.
It did get a bit heavy-handed on the "war is bad" message; the pillagers (which show up in this) do kind of lend themselves to that sort of thing. They are a Minecraft monster whose entire purpose is to go around attacking villages for no reason, after all.
Unlike some Minecraft books (I'm looking at you, Winter Morgan), the big challenge the characters face actually is
a big challenge in normal Minecraft. Instead of making a huge deal out
of something that can be survived by A: running away and hiding or B:
keeping your head and not being a noob, this has... a pillager raid.
Those are hard, even if you've built a wall around your village
beforehand; pillagers have a knack for finding the unforeseen weaknesses
in your defense. (Or just for being really annoying and falling down
holes where you can't get at them, but the ones in this book don't do
that.)
I
don't have tons to say about this one. Guy got competent, Summer no
longer annoys me, and the villagers act like villagers. (And the
pillagers act like slightly-smarter-than-in-real-Minecraft pillagers.)
This is a videogame. It's called Minecraft and rated E10+.
Despite it being Unsubtle™ on its anti-war and "renewable resources are better" messages, I'll still give this one 4 stars.
The bit about pillagers falling down holes and being annoying amused me. I'm imagining them being like the pirates that fall in the tiger traps in The Swiss Family Robinson.
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