The breathtaking debut from an exciting new voice in Young Adult thrillers, A Game of Life or Death finds Asha drawn into a dangerous world of virtual reality and corporate greed as she investigates her sister's mysterious demise.
An addictive thriller from the most sensational new voice in YA fiction.
When sixteen-year-old Asha Kennedy discovers her older sister Maya's dead body in their home, her world falls apart. Desperate for answers, and to stay out of the hands of the social services she grew up in, Asha turns to her hacker friends for help.
Her search leads her to Zu Tech, the hit games studio where Maya was a lead coder. As Asha begins to unravel the riddle of her death, she realises that the only way to uncover the truth is from the inside. Asha ghosts her old life and infiltrates a Zu Tech eSport tournament as they launch 'SHACKLE', the revolutionary Virtual Reality video game Maya was working on - and which hides a monstrous secret.
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9780702317880
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 240 g
Dimensions: 197 x 143 x 24 mm
After being hooked into this new thriller courtesy of a seemingly random business card sent through the post, which led me to the first three chapters, I have to admit I was desperate to read more so it was with a... More
A Game of Life or Death is a book that bursts onto the scene with a bang, weaving in smart social commentary about capitalism, technology and the dangers of living in virtual reality.
This book embraces and revels...
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Asha, our main character, suddenly finds her sister Maya deceased at the beginning of the story. It’s a heart wrenching thought to consider, and at only sixteen years old to be thrust into grief so violently is a... More
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