A review by ashborrow
Warcross by Marie Lu

3.0

3.5 ⭐️ I think I would have loved this book as a younger, middle school Ashley. The setting is really cool!! I enjoyed reading about Emika’s beginnings and her hacking her way into the war cross games. The neurolink is pretty cool!! I wonder if we’ll see something like that irl eventually. The book is very YA, I didn’t realize this when I picked it up, but I’m not mad about it. I haven’t read YA in a while and it was kind of nice going back to it, very fun and easy read. I was confused about why the warcross finals was the trigger for this new neurolink feature and OF COURSE zero is (?) Hideo’s lost brother. Hideo’s sudden reveal of wanting to control everyone really feels very cartoon villain to me. I really enjoyed this book up until the last third of the book.