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A review by prested
Warcross by Marie Lu
4.0
Desperate and in-debt Emika Chen, teenage hacker/bounty hunter, is offered a chance of a lifetime to pay off all of her debts.
Emika accepts the offer and heads off to Tokyo where she is planted as a spy in the Warcross Championship tournaments, where all the top players of Warcross compete to be the winning team.
During the games, she discovers that there's more going on then she thought and she slowly becomes unsure who to trust.
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This isn't my strongest synopsis but I think it gets the point across!
I really enjoyed this book so I bought the boxset off of Amazon (It was on sale).
Is this my favorite work of Marie Lu?
No, the Young Elites series has my heart and soul but this book was so good!
I loved Emika and the way she interacted with the world. I thought it was cute how Lu had a fangirl protagonist. Her characterization was nice and I enjoyed her POV.
I enjoyed the worldbuilding and the world of Warcross is fascinating.
I liked the side characters and they were interesting but the book didn't spend too much time with them? Honestly I wish the romance side plot didn't take up as much time as it did.
The romance was the one thing I didn't enjoy? I just didn't feel the chemistry between them?
That's why Hideo fell in love with Emika because she constantly was willing to help others.
Emika fell in love with Hideo because she was inspired by him and was a fangirl.
I get that but I just didn't feel chemistry and at times they're late night meetups took away time spent with the other side characters. I wish more time was spent on characterizing them. I don't know anything about them and I wish more time was spent on them instead of this romance.
I didn't really care about their romance and I wish it was more of a background thing and not a major side plot.
It's a really fun quick read and I'll be reading the next one.
Emika accepts the offer and heads off to Tokyo where she is planted as a spy in the Warcross Championship tournaments, where all the top players of Warcross compete to be the winning team.
During the games, she discovers that there's more going on then she thought and she slowly becomes unsure who to trust.
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This isn't my strongest synopsis but I think it gets the point across!
I really enjoyed this book so I bought the boxset off of Amazon (It was on sale).
Is this my favorite work of Marie Lu?
No, the Young Elites series has my heart and soul but this book was so good!
I loved Emika and the way she interacted with the world. I thought it was cute how Lu had a fangirl protagonist. Her characterization was nice and I enjoyed her POV.
I enjoyed the worldbuilding and the world of Warcross is fascinating.
I liked the side characters and they were interesting but the book didn't spend too much time with them? Honestly I wish the romance side plot didn't take up as much time as it did.
The romance was the one thing I didn't enjoy? I just didn't feel the chemistry between them?
Spoiler
I get why they became involved with each other, because they both can't stand injustice and are willing to risk themselves to help someone else.That's why Hideo fell in love with Emika because she constantly was willing to help others.
Emika fell in love with Hideo because she was inspired by him and was a fangirl.
I get that but I just didn't feel chemistry and at times they're late night meetups took away time spent with the other side characters. I wish more time was spent on characterizing them. I don't know anything about them and I wish more time was spent on them instead of this romance.
I didn't really care about their romance and I wish it was more of a background thing and not a major side plot.
It's a really fun quick read and I'll be reading the next one.