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I love good YA. This was not good YA. This was obvious, trite, lazy YA. Really disappointing. The main character is egregiously and painfully a stereotypical Mary Sue. She has rainbow hair and a cool Escher tattoo! (Escher is cool is you are 13... maybe...) She’s such a good hacker that she orchestrated revenge against the bullies of a high school acquaintance - but she doesn’t have the sense to ensure the acquaintance isn’t accused of the crime. So rather than lay a false trail away from her “f
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2.5 stars, rounding up
I liked Emika, and I love the premise of this book. I did not, however, buy the romance and I had no idea what was going on in the game most of the time.
I did like the bit about asking for help (my favorite thing about most new middle grade and YA is the insistence that characters not carry burdens by themselves), but I didn't get a real sense of why Emika would trust the people she did.
Basically, this needed more character development (aside from Emika and Hammie--who is a ...more
I liked Emika, and I love the premise of this book. I did not, however, buy the romance and I had no idea what was going on in the game most of the time.
I did like the bit about asking for help (my favorite thing about most new middle grade and YA is the insistence that characters not carry burdens by themselves), but I didn't get a real sense of why Emika would trust the people she did.
Basically, this needed more character development (aside from Emika and Hammie--who is a ...more
3.5
Really good high tech faced pace adventure through all kinds of gamer worlds. Great diverse characters including interesting gaming girls. I’ll be reading more!
Aug 17, 2024
Sarah
rated it
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Shelves:
young-adult-fiction,
api-authors
Aug 01, 2018
Terri
rated it
really liked it
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Shelves:
teenbookgroup,
the-book-in-the-car
Feb 26, 2019
Cathy
marked it as to-read
