The Rule of Thoughts by James Dashner

It is a very good book but I suggest that it would be for 10 and up as there is some violence in it. This is the second book in the series and I am about to read the third.

Basically it starts off with Michael waking up in a new body from when he was in the sleep, (sleep is when you go into a coffin and they put you in a real life simulator but with games). He is a tangent, (so he is actually just a computer program, not a real person), and is put into Jackson Porter. 

He is quite confused and feels sorry for the real Jackson because that guy is gone. Jackson's girlfriend comes over and he tries to talk things out saying that he isn't Jackson. She doesn't believe him and leaves. He finds out where his friends, Sarah and Bryson from the sleep, are based and he goes to find them. He finds Sarah. Then Kaine, the evil tangent, takes them. They find Bryson and go to a secret Agent Weber VNS. She doesn't know who they are, but she is pretending because they were at an off place with people who didn't know about the Mortality Doctrine plan. 

They get captured by police because everyone thinks they are terrorists, then escape, and crash into a building in a helicopter. They escape the 60 story building and  go to the proper VNS. Weber puts them in the sleep to fight Kaine and squeezes them. (Squeezes means to squeeze them through code so they are only one sentence of code and it s very painful.) In the end, they thought they were in Life Blood Deep but really they were in real life and they blow up a building.  They are put in prison and eventually get visitors who tell them things. 

Reviewed by Peyton