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The cover is a little wild & chaotic, but it drew me in all the same. It took a little to get into the story for me. The storyline was entertaining, but the characters started to drag on my interest the further I read. I did like the references for video game pop culture, but at times did feel like the writing was pretentious, the author feeling like they needed to put large words in for the sake that they were superior, & forced.

A 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).

D&D truly changed the world of strategy and RPG games. Unfortunately, the tale behind its creation was not as exciting as it had been billed to me. I felt this book was a textbook-like retelling of facts to include annual sales numbers. The game‘s very slow build from mocked fantasy game to cultural icon is interesting. Overall though I just felt like something was missing…like any type of connection to the creators.

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! 🥰

Lots of Joy's this week. #5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
1. Spent time with my Youngest daughter Janelle
2. Painted the trim outside of her house 🏠 from ugly green to black
3. She painted my nails 💅
4. Oakley and I started our Rally Obedience lessons again
5. I got new glasses

Thanks for the tag. Love ❤️ #5JoysFriday

Great collection of fantasy creatures for the gurps rpg series!

For 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!

Next up on audio. I‘m home all alone today with no car. The To Do list today includes washing the furnace filters, closing up all the windows to put a/c on cuz a week long heat wave hits today ( I really hate not having the windows open), folding laundry, meal planning, grocery list making, toilet cleaning. Being an adult is overrated but this book is not