Kirkus Review

Warcross by Marie Lu


Set in the future where virtual reality is more fascinating and incriminating than reality, Emika Chen is an 18 year-old bounty hunter who ends up hacking her way into the fantasy world of Warcross. Now she must navigate around dangerous criminals and help stop a hacker from gaining complete control of the world.

Emika Chen is a young girl who is trying to survive day by day in an unfair world. The only bright spot and glimmer of hope resides in the coding and virtual reality of the game Warcross created by young coder, Hideo Tanaka. Emika, like most protagonists, has had a troubling past, abandoned by her mother and raised by her father until he is gone. She is left to tend to the world on her own and does so by hacking her way through the virtual reality and catching cyber criminals who gamble and make trades based on Warcross games. In a desperate attempt to gain access to rent money, Emika finds herself with a new job working for her idol, Hideo Tanaka. Emika must train hard in Warcross while tracking down and uncovering a hacker who is trying to bring ruin to the world. Along the way Emika grows close to her idol and learns interesting facts about his life that very few know.

While it was a predictable plot with the unsung hero protagonist who falls head over heels in love with the dreamy millionaire, there were many twists and turns that cause the reader to wonder what is going to happen next.  

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