Deadly Pink

It's so close to Christmas and I haven't even been posting anything. I got super busy with schoolwork and I had a deadline, so there was no time to blog. Actually, to tell the truth, I haven't even been reading much recently because of an English project that involves tons of reading and a lot of other stuff too.
Now as my goals for 2015, I will read as much as I can, in all genres and blog much more! I know it's kind of early to be thinking about 2015, but I like to think ahead and have a whole plan set out for me. Except, I usually don't follow that plan because there are other complications. I plan to double my number of reviews in 2015 and probably reach 75 if I can!

This book was just screaming Sword Art Online to me while I was reading it. (Okay fine, for those of you who don't know, Sword Art Online or SAO is a television show involving this girl who starts playing this simulation game and gets stuck inside it. There she can either beat the whole game and get out alive or die in the game and die in real life.)
Okay, yes I'm getting way off topic. Back to the book!

The cover-

Grace Pizzelli always wished to be like her older sister Emily. She's just the average one, while Emily is the amazing one. Where she loved video games, her sister loved makeup and looking pretty. When Grace needed it most, Emily was there to make it all better.

But this time, Emily needs Grace's help. She's gotten herself stuck inside one of the total immersion games at the new arcade. But the strange thing is that she doesn't want to come out. She's basically gotten herself totally immersed in a total immersion game. 

The technical team at the arcade has tried numerous times to forcefully pull her out of the game, but no matter what they do, her mind remains connected. It's like she doesn't want to live in the real world anymore. 

Grace is forced to enter the game in hopes that she can convince Emily to come out. 

And when she does, she nearly throws up at Emily's choice for the game she wanted to rot away in. It's a pretty pink world designed for ten year old girls. With fairies and houses made of candy.

With Grace trying to figure out how to play the game, she stumbles across a cast of interesting characters that are all mad at Emily for rigging the game. From little evil sprites to Emily's murderous servants, Pretty much everyone wants Emily gone, but they don't know how to get rid of her.

Upon meeting Grace, Emily spins her tale of shattered dreams and why she tried to kill herself inside the game. All because of good intentions that went horribly bad.

Grace finally convinces Emily to leave with her to the real world. But there is the small matter that they have to beat the game in order to leave. And funny thing is that they don't know how to. The game doesn't seem to have a problem that needs to be solved. And bribing the sprites into transporting them home would not be a wise idea, considering that they already hate Emily. So they plan to forcefully exit the game. Except how exactly are they going to do that?

Movie Rating- PG- for some action and some crude humor

My thoughts-

It was really interesting and kept me hooked for all the time reading it. I finished it in a few days because I just couldn't put it down. There was no way I was going to let go of a book that really spoke to me the way this one did. 

I myself am a little bit of a gamer. I mostly play minecraft and fantasy RPGs. Especially Summoner's War. My best friend introduced me to it and I'm completely hooked. I've been playing for almost a year actually... Only in the free time that I don't seem to have anymore. So when Grace was telling all of her experiences in the game, I couldn't help but connect it to games I've played in the past. Honestly, her expressions made me think of someone who plays Call of Duty all the time playing something cute like Cooking Mama. I'd be as disgusted too. Pink is not my thing at all.

The book is fairly short, but it's really interesting all the way through. There are no parts that seem to drag through. And that's what I look for in a good book.

One thing that seemed so weird to me was that all the male characters in the book were either mute or speaking another language. It's so strange that only the female characters were able to speak English. I'm wondering if this was because of Emily's changing the code or because this game was supposed to appeal to girls. 

What kept me laughing was when Grace entered the game again after the sprites threw her off the cliff and she materialized in a forest. While she was wandering around in the forest, she saw this boy sleeping in a hammock. He seemed fast asleep, so she didn't want to bother him. And then she realized that she desperately needed directions. So Grace woke him up and started talking to him. But he was extremely unresponsive. So since she thought he was of no use, she just tied him up to the tree in case he wanted to do anything to her. And then she felt really bad and untied him from the tree because he was too cute to be tied up there.

((There is no sequel that I know of. If I find out there is one, I will say right away in my next review. And there is a sequel to Blackout! It's called Deadzone! Can't wait to read it. You know what, I'll see if my library has it now!))