An enjoyable, page turning young adult thriller all about games. It is about a group of friends who are excited about playing in a video game tournament for their favorite video game MortalDusk. They are hoping to win the grand prize money. Our main character Crystal is eager to win because she wants to help her mom pay the mortgage on the house. She is having family issues. Her father became an abusive alcoholic and he ends up leaving the family.
One day, Crystal gets a weird text message from a app on her phone that she has no recognition of. It shows a video of her little sister tied up and being held hostage. Crystal is then told she has to play a series of games to keep her sister alive. She can't tell anyone of her friends or call the police. She has to do these random ass thing like make brownies and steal an answer key to a test. Turns out that these will all be part of a much bigger scheme and it was wild.
I figured out the person or persons right away but not the reason why until the very end of the book. I caught myself skimming to get to the next page because I needed to know what was going to happen.
I will definitely be picking up more from Diana Urban.
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