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A review by togidemi
Warcross by Marie Lu
3.0
HIS NAME IS SASUKE. SASUKE. I'M GONNA PISS MYSELF.
Really this book is a 3.5 because I DID have fun reading it. The setting of Warcross the game, while pretty generic as far as fictional online games go, was fleshed-out and adequately cool, and Warcross the novel had the AUDACITY to be about a rainbow-haired tattooed Asian #hackergirl skateboarding around Tokyo, which is already six things my simping little weeb heart adores. I even love those little weeb snippets of Japanese that made me cringe, GOD. But the cast was pretty bland and the buildup to the ending felt far, FAR too abrupt. It was definitely built up to, I guess - Emika would even mention the details foreshadowing it as she processes the new plot twist, like, "SEE! THIS WASN'T SUDDEN! IT WAS FORESHADOWED" - but yeah no still felt too damn sudden.
I guess all I can say for this book is it's very mediocre for, like, sci-fi, but pretty good for YA. I have no idea what this says about sci-fi or YA, but yeah. Fuckin' Sasuke.
Really this book is a 3.5 because I DID have fun reading it. The setting of Warcross the game, while pretty generic as far as fictional online games go, was fleshed-out and adequately cool, and Warcross the novel had the AUDACITY to be about a rainbow-haired tattooed Asian #hackergirl skateboarding around Tokyo, which is already six things my simping little weeb heart adores. I even love those little weeb snippets of Japanese that made me cringe, GOD. But the cast was pretty bland and the buildup to the ending felt far, FAR too abrupt. It was definitely built up to, I guess - Emika would even mention the details foreshadowing it as she processes the new plot twist, like, "SEE! THIS WASN'T SUDDEN! IT WAS FORESHADOWED" - but yeah no still felt too damn sudden.
Spoiler
Tremaine bounty huntering even when he was a champion player? Hideo suddenly wanting to rule the world? Fuckin SASUKE returning the memories to prove that he's not totally a bad guy?? YOU KNOW WHAT SPEAKING OF SASUKE yeah literally the moment Hideo revealed his brother was MISSING and not DEAD I immediately knew he was Zero. So. That was a very underwhelming twist.I guess all I can say for this book is it's very mediocre for, like, sci-fi, but pretty good for YA. I have no idea what this says about sci-fi or YA, but yeah. Fuckin' Sasuke.