One of the very few books that mixes reality with games, Mari Moncusi creates a mixed new book called the Gamer Girl. Beginning with city slicker Maddy and divorced parents, an easy-going younger sister, and moving to the suburbs with her unicorn loving grandmother, Maddy believes her life couldn't get any worse.
The best thing that had happened to her was her father buying the new game Fields of Fantasy for her birthday party that the book dedicates to as the continuation of a love plot, that her new school lacks. But when she learns that her Prince Charming, Sir Leo is from the same high school, she tries to find him.
The entire story was shallow and lacking in many ways, as Maddy believes she is the most pitiful person in the world, but isn't portrayed with an aloof and a try-to-fit-in manner at school. But the moment she enters Fields of Fantasy, she becomes a beautiful, medieval elf mage with a knight to protect her, with no concerns. The difference between Maddy's reality, and her online gaming time as Allora is too different to be relatable and believable. A common theme in suburb schools are bullies and cliques and rulers of the school. Which is quite ironic, because this doesn't really happen, especially when reading it as a student attending a school in the suburbs. The game Fields of Fantasy, while made a big deal, has a tiny role to fulfill; to continue a love story that has a million-in-one chance of actually happening in reality. Which is is basically the entire plot.
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