Warcross by Marie Lu
Warcross by Marie Lu
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
After losing her father rather quickly eighteen year old Emika Chen has been doing her best to survive and fend for herself. Being three months behind on her rent along with numerous other bills Emika is getting a bit desperate and when she tries to pick up a bounty tracking a wanted criminal and it goes wrong Emika is at her wits end with how to make some quick cash.
Rather skilled in hacking Emika decides she’s just desperate enough to try to hack into Warcross, a vitual reality game that almost everyone is plugged into daily. When her attempt goes horribly wrong and she finds herself in front of the world Emika is scared she’s on her way to jail this time. However, what Emika never expected was a call from the creator of Warcross himself looking to hire her for her skills.
After reading Warcross it occurred to me that I just must really be a huge fan of young adult books that feature a virtual reality world within the story. Ready, Player, One anyone?? One of my absolute favorites and while this one doesn’t have that awesome trip into the eighties it still had me caught up in the story and enjoying every virtual minute.
Emika was a rather likable character to me right from the start. She’s obviously tough trying to take care of herself but while she may blend that line of right and wrong to survive when push came to shove she was just a good person that you want to root for.
As for the story about gaming…. how far are we really away from this being reality? People are attached to their phones and gaming all the time so once an affordable home virtual reality game comes into play I can imagine the world will immediately be hooked so I think that’s why I love these stories so much. Marie Lu certainly didn’t disappoint with her version of the virtual world and had a solid story to follow centered around it.
Overall, a great read that I’m sure many fans of young adult will love, would definitely recommend checking this one out.
I received an advance copy from the publisher via Edelweiss.
Carries Book Reviews 
I’m so glad you enjoyed it😄! I can’t wait to read it 😍
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I actually would have been more surprised if I hadn’t liked it with such a well known author but I suppose that does happen. I flew right through this one though and found it rather fun. 🙂
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Im looking forward to this one, every review makes it sound better and better.
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Oh I know what you mean, it has tons of great reviews so I was a bit jealous until getting a copy myself. it’s out soon though so I hope you get the chance to read and enjoy it. 🙂
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I’m #11 on the hold list at the library.😒
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This one was available to just download without requesting on Edelweiss if you use that site at all. I was holding out trying not to start picking them up on a second site but man there’s some good books on there you don’t even have to put in requests for.
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Ohh! I have to go check! Is there a particular partbofbtheir site that you findbthe books on?
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I just went to the review copies and scrolled through the ones available to download.
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Thanks Carrie. I found it. I hate the new Edelweiss plus. I like their classic version much better.
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Drat. I just tried to download it, and it wouldn’t. Then I tried logging out and going back in, and they don’t even have the download option anymore.😔
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Sorry you didn’t get the chance to grab it. 😦 Candace tried too and it wasn’t available for her now either. I’m going to have to keep an eye out over there though, seems they put these up for at least a short time since I’d gone looking for one someone else found to download and missed it but got this instead.
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I’m going to start looking every day. I’m so upset I missed this!😟
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Until a couple days ago I had ignored the site because I really didn’t like navigating it and really didn’t need more books. But the Netgalley group I’m in have been mentioning it more and more after the changes they’ve made on the site recently so I had gone in and started browsing. Guess I’ll now be watching it all the time too if they have great books like this one.
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