Not all it's cracked up to be..

Cathy's Book was interesting, but I'm not sure that it really was a true Alternate Reality Game.

It seemed to me that there was a huge difference between some of the true alternate reality games, and Cathy's Book. I know that the book encourages you to view websites, and to call phone numbers, but to be honest, doing so doesn't lend too much to the reading experience. It isn't quite interactive, and aside from using the voicemail, there is little the reader can do.

I did think that the packet of information in the book was a cool feature, and you could definitely get more out of the additional material. All the source material added to the layout of the story, and gave you all you needed to connect the plotlines before you finished the book.

It wasn't such a compelling story, and I didn't feel it was taking place in our world. I'm not the target market for the book so maybe that is it.

I have played ARG's before, and thought that they were pretty interesting, but this fell flat.