Warcross (Warcross, #1)

Okay so I picked up this book, because I used to be into gaming when I was younger. Around the age of 17 my interests started to fade away, after trying out new games I would not feel the same way about games anymore. The gamer girl inside my died, I also was an early backer of the Oculus Rift and owned the DEV kits as well; this made me get into the world of VR but a year or 2 later my interested faded again, eventually I bought the HTC Vive, and while it was amazing it didn't last long either.
I did play games (co-op) mostly with friends that I've known for 9+ years just to pass time and so we could catch up (they live far away and this is our way to catch up, by playing games) I'm also a PC gamer. Anyway, I also read some reviews about people that I follow calling this book one of their favorite books of the year.

This book made me eventually pick up gaming again, it made me decide to play NieR: Automata and I'm really addicted to the story, characters, political and cultural aspects of the game. I don't know if I will pick a game up after this since imo this is the best game I've ever played in a while and I doubt other games will come close.

Anyway, now let's talk about Warcross; so, the story is an easy ready. It can be read by anyone, it isn't difficult at all. I instantly knew who Zero was, I won't spoil his name but I'm sure most people will figure it out. The ending however, about Hideo's plan was unexpected and I liked how things turned out for Emika Chen at the end, I wish I would know more about her mother since the story focuses on her father most of the time, understandably since her mom left while she was young.

Anyway, I can't wait to read the second book sometime later this year. The world setting is great, a lot of details and easy to visualize while reading. The beginning of the story is set in New York and later in Tokyo. Emika Chen made me smile a lot of times in the first half of the book, she is awesome; I didn't fancy the rainbowish hair colors though, I don't know if the intention was to show support for LGBT+, which is great, I'm a bi sexual women my self, an Asian with bleached hair, but I just kinda found the rainbow too typical. But, anyway. What more should I write without spoiling? I'm not that great at writing reviews yet, anyway, I really recommend to read this book if you are(were) a gamer OR if you like competitive sports but then in a virtual game world with bounty hunters, hackers.

I also liked how they made a virtual world of the dark web, called, "darkcross".

Seul-gi