missingvolume | #46 In Real Life by Cory Doctorow, Jen Wang (Reply)

This is somewhere between a middle grade and YA book. A girl joins a MMO and gets into more than she bargained for. An online friend recruits her to help hunt down gold farmers in the game and get paid. As she is doing this she actually talks to one of them and finds out that lfe isn't so fun when you game for a living. When she learns about unions and strikes on TV and asking her Dad about some of it she gives this advice to the gold farmer and of course it doesn't work out. The plot does somewhat get a happy ending but it thought it just took the easy way to end it since it comes across more as a story with a moral rather than a good story. I do have to say that I liked the art in it and it did make up for some of my feelings about the story.

Digital review copy provided by the publisher though NetGalley