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Heir Apparent (Rasmussem Corporation #2)

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In the virtual reality game Heir Apparent, there are way too many ways to get killed--and Giannine seems to be finding them all. Which is a darn shame, because unless she can get the magic ring, locate the stolen treasure, answer the dwarf's dumb riddles, impress the head-chopping statue, charm the army of ghosts, fend off the barbarians, and defeat the man-eating dragon,...more

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Published June 1st 2004 by Sandpiper (first published October 1st 2002)

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Mar 28, 2008 Jennifer rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult, read-in-2008, fantasy, sci-fi

I'll be honest, I mostly picked up this audiobook because it was narrated by Carine Montreband and I was so in love with the Uglies books by Westerfeld that she narrated that I wanted to hear her voice again. The unconscious mental comparison between Westerfeld's book and this one may be skewing my opinion of it.

Summary: Fourteen-year-old Giannine becomes trapped in the virtual reality game Heir Apparent when an activist group attacks the gaming center where she's playing. Suddenly the safety m...more

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Aug 07, 2008 Ashley rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: the-honored, want-to-own, read-as-child, fantasy, top-42, the-fantastic-other

One of my favorite books because it combines fantasy and reality, as well as future-tech gaming with present-day frustrations. But besides the content, I continue to be amazed by the way the book is set up. The main character Giannine is stuck in a virtual fantasy game in which death can occur to the protagonist. Every time Giannine 'dies,' she begins anew from the the start, able to revise her decisions and react differently to the opportunities and threats presented to her. As she goes through...more

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Oct 10, 2011 Faith rated it 1 of 5 stars

It was Giannine Bellisario’s fourteenth birthday, when she received a gift certificate to a gaming center, given to her from her ignorant, and un involved Father. To get into this gaming center, she had to get through the Citizens to Protect Our Children (CPOC) first. Once she was in Rasmussem Gaming Center, the games began. The place was filled with virtual games, and she had to decide which to choose. Giannine selected the virtual game, Heir Apparent, but she was limited on time. The time in...more

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May 18, 2007 Emma rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: fans of fantasy and/or the movie "Groundhog Day"

Vivan Vande Velde is one of the best fantasy writers out there. Her stories are believable and populated with characters you'll remember long after the book is closed. Her stories are also surprisingly believable given that they are fantasies. Such is the case with this novel, which takes place in some undisclosed future time. The story gets into gear when the narrator, Giannine, enters a full-immersion virtual reality game (by the same name as the title of the book) to compete to rule a kingdom...more

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Apr 04, 2008 Melissa rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Any Scifi/Fantasy Lover

If someone asked me to recommend a true Scifi/Fantasy book, not the cheap, poorly written pieces of junk that some books are, I would tell them that they would HAVE to read this book! It is wonderfully written, with the right amount of humour, Drama, Suspense/Horror and to top things off it is written in the realm of medieval times=)
Gianne is a believable character, she takes on the situations that are thrown at her whether its reciting a different poem multiple times to searching through spide...more

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Apr 22, 2008 Alisa rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: fantasy lovers

Shelves: favorite

Giannine is a 14-year-old hooked up to a computer where she is experiencing a role-playing fantasy. She is in total immersion when some intruders damage some of the equipment. They are afraid that because she is in total immersion, it could cause serious bodily harm to her if they disconnect her before she SUCCESSFULLY completes the game! She only has 5 hours to complete the game, and she keeps making wrong decisions and trusting the wrong people. Every time she makes a wrong decision she gets k...more

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Nov 03, 2007 Kat rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy

over all it was a good book. i liked how it turned out the system was damaged because of a group trying to protect kids and ended up nearly killing one. i thought it was going to be some virus thing hidden in the game that killed her if she failed to finish the game. the queen is a gold digging bitch though...not surprising really. But honesty i found myself liking Wulfgar more that Kenric, which is a bit surprising because i like the "Kenric" type more when it comes to these books, but Wulfgar...more

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Mar 21, 2013 Harold Ogle rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: cyberpunk, fantasy, gaming, magic, dragons, shapechangers, ya, divorce

A fun read, Heir Apparent is a story about a near-future girl stuck in a VR game (resulting from a terrorist attack) with only a little time to win the game before her nervous system collapses from prolonged exposure to the VR stimuli. Apparently it's second in a series, but I had no idea, as this was another random selection from the library. Also, the author makes it clear that this was written - at least in part - as a reaction to fundamentalists and others who rail against the value of fanta...more A fun read, Heir Apparent is a story about a near-future girl stuck in a VR game (resulting from a terrorist attack) with only a little time to win the game before her nervous system collapses from prolonged exposure to the VR stimuli. Apparently it's second in a series, but I had no idea, as this was another random selection from the library. Also, the author makes it clear that this was written - at least in part - as a reaction to fundamentalists and others who rail against the value of fantasy and gaming, claiming that it is harmful to children.

It's a fun conceit, because it gives the sense of playing an adventure game (particularly the old Sierra games, in which you can and do die on every screen): she repeatedly makes sensible choices and finds that someone kills her. In the game, this results in her having to start over, but in real life, she's used up even more of what little time she has left before her brain fries permanently. So this adds a bit of a mystery element to the reading of the book: as the reader, you are also trying to divine what the correct choices would be to succeed.

In the game, called 'Heir Apparent,' our protagonist Giannine (for once just a child of divorced parents, rather than an orphan) becomes the bastard Princess Janine, who has been raised in secrecy by shepherds (a minor irritation here: Velde repeatedly refers to Janine as a 'shepherder,' rather than the more traditional 'shepherdess' or the correct 'shepherd.' It's weird.) until the King names her his heir on his deathbed. This naturally doesn't sit well with his queen, or any of his three legitimate sons, the Princes who expected one of them would inherit the crown. Winning the game requires that she survive to the succession ceremony, and the game is a challenge because there are so many people who want her dead. In addition to her murderously envious half-siblings, there is a peasant uprising, an invading barbarian horde, an infestation of ghosts, and a rampaging dragon to handle. I really enjoyed the book and found the game plot very interesting.(less)

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Jan 12, 2013 S rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Dec 10, 2012 Andrea added it

Shelves: childrens, science-fiction, virtualworld

"Heir Apparent" is "Groundhog Day" in a computer-generated fantasy world. Giannine gets trapped in a fantasy game of duelling heirs, and must find a solution to the game in order to escape.

Unlike "Groundhog Day", there's no convenient jump-montage from working out the repetition to the "been there hundreds of days and now can play the piano" final solution stage. While Vande Velde fortunately does abbreviate some of the repetition, there was a little too much "learning stages" and I came very cl...more

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Nov 10, 2012 Amy added it

Shelves: 2012, fiction_ya, fantasy-sci-fi

"This book is dedicated with affection for but no patience with those who would protect our children through humorless moralizing and paranoia about fantasy

Giannine Bellisario's distant father gives her a gift certificate to a virtual reality gaming center for her birthday. Giannine thinks that the gift certificate will provide an afternoon of pleasant diversion as she participates in a total immersion game - ie, the player feels as though she is an actual participant in an alternate reality. Bu...more

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Aug 07, 2012 Alisi rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: urban-fantasy

This is a rather inventive UF YA book. Well, I'm not certain if this counts as a UF or USF. Anyway...

Giannine just had a birthday and as a present, her father sent her some game time in a futuristic gaming center. They have just about every conceivable game type and Giannine goes in for a virtual reality game that is set in medieval times.

The goal of the game is to survive and get crowned King, with errors resulting in players dying and having to restart from the beginning.

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Jun 25, 2012 Emily Tuckett rated it 4 of 5 stars

Experience the new virtual reality! Rasmussen Gaming Corporation offers a new One of a Kind gaming experience. Don’t just play the game, be in the game. State of the Art technology makes you feel as though you are experiencing the game first hand–Smell, Taste, Touch, Feel the Adventure!

Giannine’s life is anything but spectacular. So when her absent father gifts her a voucher for a Total Immersion Virtual Reality game, Giannine chooses ‘Heir Apparent’ and plunges into a medieval adventure of magi...more

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Jun 17, 2012 Connie rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: middle school-aged kids, sci-fi lovers

Recommended to Connie by: a friend

Shelves: pretty-intriguing-cover

In the game Heir Apparent, there are as many ways to win as there are to die, and Giannine can testify to every single way to die because she's been there, done that. But if she doesn't win the game soon, she'll die--this time for real.
I was given this book by a friend of mine for Christmas, and have only just gotten around to reading it. For the beginning of the book, I was actually a little bored. There was no background set up, not much action, and while the game seemed interesting, it took a...more In the game Heir Apparent, there are as many ways to win as there are to die, and Giannine can testify to every single way to die because she's been there, done that. But if she doesn't win the game soon, she'll die--this time for real.
I was given this book by a friend of mine for Christmas, and have only just gotten around to reading it. For the beginning of the book, I was actually a little bored. There was no background set up, not much action, and while the game seemed interesting, it took a really long time for the actual problem--Giannine being stuck in the total-immersion game unless she wins--to pop up. And now I see why the world wasn't really explained--it was the second book in the series. Although it says that the books can be read in any order, I have a suspicion that all that background information on this futuristic world that I was looking for in Heir Apparent were all placed in User Unfriendly, the first book in the Rasmussem Corporation series. Which means I need to get my hands on that book--preferably from the library, since it's apparently not as good as Heir Apparent.
But back to this second book. What actually drew me into reading it was the cover. I mean, that and the title combined made me really want to read this book. Just look at it! It's like every fantasy-lover's ideal. But when I got into it, I found out that it wasn't actually a true fantasy novel, just a fantasy game inside a novel where the novel really takes place. So, slight disappointment there.
The characters were all fairly shallow, though I suspect that that's because it's a fantasy game for young teenagers, so the characters aren't supposed to be super deep. But I was fairly disappointed that Giannine didn't have much character development, seeing as she is the main character, and the only real life human being we know for the majority of the book. She's a pretty shallow character, and I was always frustrated when she was making decisions--like, hello? Meet the father! There's a reason he's there! Stop trusting the shapeshifting prince! Those were obvious riddles that you didn't have to think about! I kept punching a pillow because of this.
Another thing I disliked: the book moved much too slowly. Some parts felt dragged out, such as when she goes through the game the second time. The beginning was also rather slow, since it was mostly world-building and getting Giannine into the game. That could have been sped up a bit so that the major conflict could be introduced faster.
I think I truly liked the book after she stopped dying. Every time she died, I let out another sigh. The repetition was annoying every time she died, especially because she kept dying really early on when she first started playing the game. I'm sure she was trying her best, but really? I'm glad she wasn't a total Mary-Sue character, and that she learned from her mistakes and everything, but when she was called a bad-ass? I can see how, but compared to some of the other bad-ass characters I've read about, on a scale of one to ten, Giannine is at most a six.
Another thing I liked was the author's dialogue and writing style. Vivian Vande Velde has really good dialogue that makes me keep turning the page, even when I'm completely exasperated with the characters in the story.
This book isn't very deep, so it's probably more fitting for somebody much, much younger than me--more directed at the upper elementary school/middle school kids than a high schooler who just ended the school year reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. But overall, it was a good, light-hearted read, and I'll probably be picking it up again to skim through in the future.(less)

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Nov 09, 2011 Joslyn rated it 3 of 5 stars

I read this book many years ago so my memory may be a little foggy. I re-skimmed over the book just to refresh said memory. It was an easy read, not very complex, and most definitely for children although teenagers can find this science fiction story interesting. It is a science fiction; therefore it isn’t really historically accurate of medieval times.
The teenage heroine of this story is Giannine and everything is seen through her first person prospective. She receives a gift certificate from h...more

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Jun 11, 2011 Corinne rated it 4 of 5 stars

In the not too distant future, Giannine plans to spend an afternoon playing a virtual-reality video game. She puts on the special hat that immerses her into a medieval world, where she knows she needs to be crowned king in order to win. Except, soon after her game begins there's a...glitch. A glitch that makes the stakes of this game higher than she can imagine. If she wants to have the real world back, Giannine has to make all the right choices and get that crown on her head.

The set-up of this...more

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May 21, 2011 Emily rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: middle-grade, ya-sci-fi-fantasy, sci-fi-fantasy

As a avid gaming fan myself, I was overcome with giddiness when I learned that the main protagonist of this fun read about a gamer trapped inside a medieval virtual reality strategy setup was also a female. I give major one-ups to V-cubed (Vivian Vande Velde) for not making this seem like a big deal. Rather, she just stated that girls can also like games, so let's get on with the awesome adventures, shall we?

Giannine is witty, smart and believably determined as your typical 14-year-old girl une...more As a avid gaming fan myself, I was overcome with giddiness when I learned that the main protagonist of this fun read about a gamer trapped inside a medieval virtual reality strategy setup was also a female. I give major one-ups to V-cubed (Vivian Vande Velde) for not making this seem like a big deal. Rather, she just stated that girls can also like games, so let's get on with the awesome adventures, shall we?

Giannine is witty, smart and believably determined as your typical 14-year-old girl unexpectedly caught in something out of her league (however, not too determined to be distracted from from the handsome boys in the game). As someone who has played various versions of Zelda for hours on end (Ocarina of Time, anyone?), the strategic set up of this game made me wish it was real. An experienced gamer will wag a finger at the novice mistakes Giannine makes in the beginning (hint: extraneous characters are usually not extraneous), but she soon catches onto the trends of the gameplay as the adventures become more complicated and the stakes become even greater. The highest of all stakes, of course, is that Gianinne's non-virtual life also hangs in the balance, with the time ticking away until the machine overloads ...unless she can beat the game. This scenario is wonderfully fun to follow, even if I've seen it in other books and television shows before (most memorably in a kickass episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark?).

Aside from the main plot, HA has great thematic undercurrents about how the true dangers are often not the video games or virtual realities, but those who would try to censor kids from experiencing these worlds. As a fantasy novelist, this campaign felt both relevant and genuine coming from VVV. This was perfectly addressed in the beginning of the novel, and then smartly tossed aside in order to let the adventure take over.

All in all, this is a fast-paced adventurous ride that has a lot to love about it. I think I would have definitely enjoyed it more if I was a few years younger (I am admittedly out of range of the target audience), but even so I would recommend this to anyone looking for a fun way to spend the afternoon. (less)

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Jan 11, 2011 Ithlilian rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult

Heir Apparent is one of the most fun books I've ever read. It's what choose your own adventure books should be. Every little choice that the main character makes could end up leading to her death, and it often does. I did not mind the story starting over numerous times because Giannine learned from her mistakes. It could have easily been repetitive, but every story was different. I felt there was a perfect mixture of trial and error and I enjoyed every path that was taken. I also enjoyed that Gi...more

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Dec 10, 2010 Sharon rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Apr 26, 2010 Kit rated it 4 of 5 stars

Giannine is a fourteen-year-old gamer who's playing a sword-and-sorcery virtual-reality game called Heir Apparent when sabotaged equipment means she has to get out or risk frying her brain. Unfortunately, that means she has to win the game as fast as she can.

Because 90-plus percent of the story takes place in the game world, the main characters are the game characters - "heir" Giannine's advisors, soldiers, and rivals for the throne - and Vande Velde captures every gamer's frustrations in Gianni...more

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Apr 08, 2010 Jessica rated it 3 of 5 stars

Heir Apparent is set in a near-future world where ultra-realistic virtual reality games are The Thing. It is, in fact, a fantasy novel, as the main character, Giannine, is playing one of these virtual reality games that is set in a fantasy world. The premise is clever of the book is clever. thirty minutes of real time buys you three days of game time. Each time you die, you’re sent back to the beginning of the story. Giannine’s game goes as follows: Giannine, a lowly sheep farmer, is actually th...more

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Sep 22, 2009 Wendy rated it 4 of 5 stars

I can't remember if this book has some mild language issues... it's been too long since I've read it. I actually got it for my maniac computer gamer brother (no offense, Alan!!!) and of course had to read it myself first. It actually kept me quite entertained throughout, life, after life, after life etc...

The main character is a young girl who likes gaming, and so goes to one of the gaming places, and gets hooked up to the computer, which allows her to play the game as though she were really in...more

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Sep 02, 2009 Arya rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: very-intersting-ideas, adventure, fantasy, science-fiction

Giannine Bellisario (Thea Greenleaf) is back in this fun filled fantasy adventure.

Giannine is raised by her grandmother, and when her absent father asks her what she wants for a birthday present she of course asks for a Rasmuesen gift card. To bad CPOC has to ruin her perfectly harmless adventure...

CPOC, an organization devoted totally to the "Protection of Our Children" attacks the Rassmuesen facility and damages the machines. With Giannine fully submerged in her adventure and the damaged equip...more

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May 27, 2009 Trish rated it 4 of 5 stars

What I liked about this book was the idea that you could build an entire story just to make a statement. I suppose that's all anyone ever does when they write, but it was obviously done. Before you even begin the story, there is the page that is made to look like a gift certificate, which sets the tone for what's in store. It's a ticket for the reader to come along to another world within another world--just as the main character goes, too. And then at the end, in case you were taken in by a pri...more What I liked about this book was the idea that you could build an entire story just to make a statement. I suppose that's all anyone ever does when they write, but it was obviously done. Before you even begin the story, there is the page that is made to look like a gift certificate, which sets the tone for what's in store. It's a ticket for the reader to come along to another world within another world--just as the main character goes, too. And then at the end, in case you were taken in by a prince's smile, you are reminded that the bigger purpose of the story is the political statement with a final page made to look like a picketing sign. There is also an invitation to start your own protest. It made me smile and I thought, "Well done, Vivian Vande Velde."

I like that the author tries to empower a young crowd to take a stand and think for themselves. While I have no objection to the reading of scriptures, it is my belief that shouting thee's and thou's from a picket line is in strong opposition to the way religious texts were intended to be read. For this same reason, I don't speak that way in normal everyday language. I would rather honor my religious beliefs in a quiet manner. If anyone would ask me directly, with real intent on answers, I would not be afraid to share the deepest feelings of my heart, but I do not agree with broadcasting it in political spheres.

For those that would censor books or games, I believe their motives and intentions come from a good place. There is a big difference in movie ratings from the 80's versus today or rather there is more awareness thanks to concerned parents who spoke up. My parents took me to R-rated movies growing up, and I became desensitized to the embarrassment of watching people suck face on screen. I have not allowed my children to be in the same situation and would rather preserve their childhood for as long as possible. I don't want them to be desensitized to something that they naturally turn their faces away from. And they do! Even when watching TV shows or commercials today. They prefer not to look.

Aside from political statements, the story was a good one. I like the kind of video games where you have to talk to others to find out what your objective is, so I appreciated the game being played in the book. The story unfolds much the same way one level of Super Paper Mario unfolds, only without jumping on goombas. Unlike, Super Paper Mario, there isn't just one path, but an infinite number of paths to take based on individual choices. Also, it was like Tron, being inside the game itself. All in all, I think I would enjoy playing Heir Apparent.(less)

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Mar 12, 2009 Flourish rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book was very enjoyable. It was written in solid prose, and I enjoyed the story. One couldn't call it "complex," and in the end, that's why I've only given it three stars. The best children's fiction (young adult fiction? - I'll stick with 'children's,' although I suspect that it's intended for young adults) tells a deeper story than that which a child can comprehend.

As an adult reading it, I was frequently frustrated - not because the story that Giannine has to navigate through was diffic...more

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Jun 14, 2012 Liv rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone interested

Shelves: favorites, books-i-own

Well I really liked this book. Granted, I haven’t read it in a few years but I’m basing this review on the fact that I've picked up this book more than once (I’m guessing about 4 or 5 times…yep it’s THAT good).

Giannine is your classic female character. She’s got family issues, doesn’t really like school, etc. so when she gets the chance to go to the local gaming center and play she’s all mellow about it (teen angst and all that). But the book picks up I promise!!

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Apr 15, 2011 Cherrylea rated it 5 of 5 stars

I have to say that this book exceeded my expectations. These days, books do that a lot to me.
What was so great about this particular book? you ask. Well, I'd say that it was the plot. Sure, I've seen the "trapped in a virtual game" sort of thing a lot, but for some reason, this was a BANG type of book. I couldn't help but love it! The book is set in the future, in a game set in the past. How cool is that? And our heroine is a very modern heroine, my favorite type, too - the sarcastic, "typical t...more

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Oct 26, 2009 Holly rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: my-favorites

This was a really fun, funny book, though it was a little disconcerting at the beginning--but that's probably because I just finished listening to the Uglies trilogy and then all of a sudden I start this book and it's the same reader. But Carine Montbertrand is such a good reader--it was exciting to get to listen to her again.

My favorite parts were Giannine--especially her dry, sarcastic sense of humor--and how bad she was at video games. She died about twenty times! Just when her dying was abou...more

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Oct 10, 2011 Amber rated it 3 of 5 stars

The book Heir Apparent, by Vivian Vande Velde, is about a girl named Giannine Bellisario who gets sucked into the video game Heir Apparent. Giannine is turning fourteen and her father gives her a gift certificate to the gaming arcade called the Rassmusem Gaming Center. To start off the beginning of a “fantastic” day she has to pass the CPOC (Citizens to Protect our Children). Once she gets in, she has a few games to pick from. She chooses a game where they completely put you and make you feel l...more

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May 28, 2009 April rated it 4 of 5 stars

Surprisingly, for a trade book purchased at a junior high book fair, I really became engrossed in this book. This books supports all things I love about "choose your own adventure" genres. The main character is a girl (kudos for that) playing a virtual reality RPG that she has to win on her own to be able to exit from, for if she is manually removed from the game she could suffer possible brain damage. I loved seeing the many options acted out that she could follow in the game and how a wrong ch...more

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Vivian Vande Velde (born 1951, currently residing in Rochester, New York) is an American author who writes books primarily aimed at young adults.

Her novels and short story collections usually have some element of horror or fantasy, but are primarily humorous. Her book Never Trust a Dead Man (1999) received the 2000 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Novel. She says that she really likes to write for...more

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“She sighed. Loudly. "Physical appearance is not what is important."
Yeah right. Tell that to any girl who hasn't bothered to put on a presentable shirt or fix her hair because she's only running into the grocery store to get a quart of milk for her grandmother, and who does she see tending the 7-ITEMS-OR-LESS cash register but the guy of her dreams, except she can't even say hi- much less try to develop a meaningful relationship- since she looks like the poster child for the terminally geeky.” — 35 people liked it

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