pickA teen retelling of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Prickly Vi Reyes masquerades as a boy on an Arthurian inspired MMORPG to avoid bullying. Jack "Duke" Orsino is football royalty who starts playing the game after a season-ending injury.
We have a GoT style TV show, a sff/gaming convention, tabletop D&D, feminism, computer gaming and both characters growing in a realistic way.
I really liked all the characters (with a few obvious exceptions).
I was today years old when I discovered that Olivie Blake and Alexene Farol Follmuth are the same person! 😱 This is a YA story based loosely on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, so I was already pretty excited to read it! But now that I really know who wrote it I'm even more excited! 🥰
pickFor those that don't know, Alexene Farol Follmuth's other pen name is Olivia Blake of The Atlas Six series. Here she writes a cute rom com YA of a nerdy, RPG playing teen girl who falls for the star jock. In this case, Viola 'Vi' Reyes is sick of toxic masculinity in the gaming world and creates a male character online in the MMORPG game Twelfth Knight. Enter injured football player Jack who joins the game and sparks fly!
Up next is Twelfth Knight. This is author Olivie Blake writing YA romcom as Alexene Farol Follmuth. Are both pen names? I'm not sure.
June board all set! #BookSpinBingo
Of course the first book I'm reading in June is not any of the books I added to my #BookSpin list. My first X on the board will be one of the free spots.
pick4.5/5
When Jack “Duke“ Orsino tears his ACL, he's forced to sit out his senior year football season and instead starts playing the game Twelfth Knight. Viola also plays Twelfth Knight, but when she ends up playing with her school rival Duke, she pretends to be her brother Bast, so that Duke doesn't realize who he's really playing with.
I loved this twelfth night retelling.
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