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Oct 16, 2017Beatricksy rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Feels manipulative beneath its colorful lights, being just a standard YA pile of tropes about exotic boys with accents and "unique" (eg, rainbow-hair'd) girls that are good at being damsel-y when the plot requires it. Other than the main two protagonists, the cast is forgettable, and the ramifications of immersive virtual reality are not addressed until the final ten pages of the book (and clumsily, at that). Predictable and sloggy, with bursts of entertainment but mostly verging on fetishistic Japanese nonsense. I WAS going to rag on the video game itself for being little more than a capture the flag game that somehow gets ALL the attention, but then my sister reminded me that Overwatch exists, so. I guess that part's not too far fetched.