Hello! It’s been a
while since my last post, this due the giveaway I was organizing, I didn’t want
that entry to get lost so more people could see it and participate.
Last
Saturday, September 23, I attended the last signing of Marie Lu for the Warcross tour, for this one she was
going to chat with author Kiersten White.
Warcross Summary
For the millions who
log in every day, Warcross isn’t just a game—it’s a way of life. The obsession
started ten years ago and its fan base now spans the globe, some eager to
escape from reality and others hoping to make a profit. Struggling to make ends
meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down players
who bet on the game illegally. But the bounty hunting world is a competitive
one, and survival has not been easy. Needing to make some quick cash, Emika
takes a risk and hacks into the opening game of the international Warcross
Championships—only to accidentally glitch herself into the action and become an
overnight sensation.
Convinced she’s going
to be arrested, Emika is shocked when instead she gets a call from the game’s
creator, the elusive young billionaire Hideo Tanaka, with an irresistible
offer. He needs a spy on the inside of this year’s tournament in order to
uncover a security problem . . . and he wants Emika for the job. With no time
to lose, Emika’s whisked off to Tokyo and thrust into a world of fame and
fortune that she’s only dreamed of. But soon her investigation uncovers a
sinister plot, with major consequences for the entire Warcross empire.
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| Marie Lu. |
I arrived kind of late, the event had
just started and I had to pick up the book I had preordered online to get a
ticket for the signing line. The
whole event was a chat between both authors, which have a super nice chemistry
making everything fun and interesting.
Marie
Lu talked mainly about her new book, Warcross.
She mentioned that she wanted to write something lighter because the books she
had been working on were dark (the Young Elites),
and so she wrote Warcross for
herself. She decided to challenge herself writing a duology instead of a
trilogy, that way she could get rid of the middle book that’s always hard to
write, but she didn’t think the structure would change that much. She mentioned
that writing a duology turned out to be harder because she has to combine two
books into one.
Lu
also mentioned that right now Emika, Warcross
main character, has become her favorite because she put so much of her own
personality into Emika, so she identifies with her a lot. And finally she said
that she would like to see Warcross
adapted as an anime, she is currently watching Sword Art Online, an anime with a similar story about immersion
videogames.
