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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!
I rarely give up on a book , but there are so many great books to read why waste your time on something that doesn‘t work for you . This book gets great reviews and they say don‘t be put off by the gaming element ‘ but it was that that finished it for me - the writing is good ,the story line touching but the constant references to gaming drove me mad ! I suspect it‘s an age thing ! But if you aren‘t into gaming I would avoid this !
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!