It’s time to play “guess that book” and also watch our TBRs weep.
Book Beginnings is hosted by Rose City Reader and is all about the first line of a current/upcoming read. Friday 56 is a meme hosted by Freda’s Voice, where you turn to page 56 (or 56%) in what you’re reading a find a snippet that jumps out at you.
First Lines
That was my first thought was we crept through the dark temple, entering the beast’s inner lair.
56% Snippet
Ah, yes. Another side quest. Let’s just say I’d learned my lesson after the disaster at Ghost Hollow.
Book Reveal
One wrong move, and it’s game over.
Welcome to DRAGON OPS, the world’s first augmented-reality video-game theme park. Set on a once-deserted island, our three beta players-classic gamer geek Ian; his adventure-seeking sister, Lily; and their too-cool-for-gaming cousin, Derek-have been lucky enough to score an invite to play before the fully immersive experience opens to the public.
But once inside, they find themselves trapped in a game taken over by a rogue AI dragon called Atreus, and suddenly the stakes go beyond the virtual world. With no cheat codes, guidebooks, save points, or do-overs, they’ll need all their cunning and video-game hacks to beat the game? and survive in real life.
Action-packed and unputdownable, Dragon Ops will thrill gamers and reluctant readers alike with high-tech adventure and electrifying twists and turns.
Reasons to Read
✿ It says dragon RIGHT THERE, guys.
✿ Seriously. Are you even trying? Gosh.
✿ A book about kid gamers! And virtual reality!
✿ Really, all sorts of geeky goodness in this one.
✿ Rogue AI … which just happens to be a dragon.
✿ Lots of action and adventure.
✿ Quests! Who doesn’t love a good quest?
This is a weekly meme hosted by E. @ Local Bee Hunter’s Nook meant to take place on Mondays, but since Fridays tend to be my TBR-focused post, I’ve decided to combine them here. Monday’s prompt is: unconventional format.
There seems to be a theme here with the historical fiction. Is epistolary just very common in historical? Huh. I never even noticed. I tried to pick some that weren’t historical, just for some variety, but I still slipped Code Name Verity and The Night Diary onto this one, because they’ve both been on my TBR for a while now.
Then we come back to the present with Everything, Everything, the sole contemporary on the list today. Given that I don’t read a ton of contemporary, this maybe isn’t all that surprising.
And to round it off, we’ve got two futuristic books, This Is How You Lose the Time War and The Martian, both of which were recommendations that I’m actually really looking forward to!
This prompt was a little harder than I expected, since I did books in verse not long ago and decided to go with epistolary this time. I love the idea of this format, but I guess other than Illuminae, I’ve not actually read anything in a really unconventional format.
Just seeing The Martian makes me want to reread it! Also, I can’t remember the format at all so now I want to go back and check😁
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I don’t know, since I’ve never actually picked it up, but it’s supposed to be written with letters, I think? xD I didn’t realize that until someone told me, because I’ve never actually looked at it haha.
Not my usual read, but it does sound enticing. Thanks for sharing. Here’s mine: “THE CLOSER YOU GET”
I’m halfway through it, and it’s a lot of fun so far. :3 Definitely the sort of thing you’d appreciate more as a gamer, though.
So much geeky goodness, and dragons! Yay! Happy reading and happy weekend!
My Friday Book Memes.
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It does my old geeky, gamer heart good, that’s for sure. xD
Oh my… a VR game…with a theme park?? My kind of good time.
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Right? Njow if they would just make this in the real world, that’d be great!
The Martian is such a great book! You won’t be able to put it down 🙂
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Hi,
I have read Everything, Everything, really like that book.
I’ve added several of your books to my TBR list. Have a great day!
Hope you enjoy them when you get a chance to read them!
You had me with dragon!! 🙂 Happy weekend, stay safe!
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I’ve read a book by this author before. I haven’t read this one. It looks interesting. Enjoy your current read!
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I was just thinking how there are so many, many books I’ve never even heard of yet it seems like I have an endless list of books to read. I hope you enjoy this one. I generally like dragon stories. My highlighted book’s quotes
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Happy Friday! 🙂
On my blog I’m sharing from Until the Mountains Fall by Connilyn Cossette. I’m currently on chapter 20, so I’ll share from there.
“My family and Hakim’s family, along with Baz and his wife and daughters, were gathered around the long table in the courtyard, oil lamps flickering joyfully along its length.”
Hope you have a great weekend filled with awesome reading time. 😀❤📚
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Great opening for that dragon book!
Happy Reading. Love the cute dragon blog layout!
Thank you!
Dragon Ops sounds like so much fun – it’s going on my tbr. 🙂
Rogue dragon AI? And gamer kids? Sign me up!
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Looks like a fun read!