pickThis was the sequel to Warcross and I actually liked the 2nd book even better. It's definitely YA vibes but has a solid sci-fi story with many layers. Overall it was a satisfying ending.
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Wildcard (Warcross #2) | 
pickThis was the sequel to Warcross and I actually liked the 2nd book even better. It's definitely YA vibes but has a solid sci-fi story with many layers. Overall it was a satisfying ending.
pickJust finished this. I liked the first one a bit more but I still thought this was a good sequel. We finally get answers about what happened to Sasuke and it‘s just so heartbreaking.
pick4/5 for the second in this duology. All the twists in this book!!! It was so good. I cannot believe I waited so long to finish this duology. I loved reading about Emika again. She is such a great character. I recommend this.
pickI can‘t say I enjoyed WILDCARD as much as WARCROSS, but this is still a great read. Marie Lu knows how to write a great page-turner. The action drags just a bit more in this second book, though. Lu also leans into the melodrama a little heavy from the start, and it‘s been a while since I read the first book, so it was a bit much. I also felt the big showdown at the Warcross closing ceremony and fight in Zero‘s mind dragged in places.
My #TBRBingo card number 2. Just focusing on truly smashing my Edelweiss tbr backlist. Maybe I'll learn not to download books on Edelweiss like a greedy player in a game of bookish Hungry, Hungry Hippos? More cards to come!
pickThis never happens, but I actually liked this one more than the first! I loved that right when you thought you knew what was going to happen, it changed. It always kept me on my feet and guessing! And I ended up falling in love with the romance, I wish their would have been a bit more of that at the end. I felt I had a better idea what and how the virtual reality worked. There was only 1 game, but it was soo good! 5 stars!
pickI have never been more thankful for a library card and access online. I also read this book in about 2 days. I couldn‘t get enough of it. I love sci-fi. So. Much. Perfect end to this series and proof that power can corrupt even the best of intentions. #Wildcard
My October wrap up for this month❤
All the books I read were pretty good, but my favourites were House of salt and sorrows or Wildcard.
Every problem has a new solution. But after every solution there's a new problem to tackle, some new challenge to take on.
pickAlmost as amazing as the first book, I absolutely love the Warcross world, the virtual reality and gaming side of it. Emika continues to be such a cool character, and tries to do the right things rather than what's nicest. The plot continued to be pretty fast paced but some was irrelevant and some chapters did drag. More twists than the first, but overall such a good ending to an awesome duology! May be one of the best series I've read this year💙
pick4/5. The end was predictable, but it was suspenseful throughout the rest! Emika Chen = my hero. #girlswhocode
so-soI lurrrved Warcross. This was just ok for me. No actual Warcross games and lots of outrageous predicaments that get more confusing as the book goes on. That‘s not going to stop me from trying more from this author though.
pickI loved these books, listened on audio, the narration was excellent. It was just enough dystopian/futuristic to be fun but not so much to be too “current” (eg no plagues wiping out humanity thankfully and no politics really). AI comes into this book and the perils and plus sides of technology. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
1. Ideal dystopian - Firstly, I wouldn't want to live in a dystopian world because it would be after a devastating event that destroyed our government. But if I was to choose, Kiefer Sutherland would be my president and we would all participate in virtual games like in Marie Lu's books.
#NWC @Readage @AnansiGirl @jb72 @mollyrotondo @seascape @AsYouWish @AkashaVampie @ElizaMarie
• Wildcard, Wicked Saints, and Get a Life Chloe Brown
• Daisy Jones and The Six (the spine is pink)
• The Martian
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
pickWildcard the part 2 to Warcross is a amazing book! All things seem to take a twist you didn‘t see coming, I just finished this awhile ago, but I don‘t want to spoiler both books I rate this 9/10.
pickI could not finish Ready Player One. It was too blasphemous. Wildcard is the sequel to War Cross. These books are about a virtual game. These books are fantastic and much better, in my opinion, than that other one.
The ending is amazing and I really would like to talk about it to someone. Maybe I will bribe my 17 year old to read it.
#Booked2020 YA novel by a POC
#PopSugar20 book with AI character
#FridayFun @wanderinglynn
1. YA. I love it all. I'm currently reading Marie Lu.
2. I'm an 80s girl so Star Wars, ET, Goonies
3. Friends
4. Knitting. The more I see of @Lindy I wanted to get started again. The thing that holds me back is that it became a job when I did it two years ago to raise some money. It stopped being relaxing. I love to hike.
These were my reads from January....not as much as I would have liked but readings reading no matter the quantity. I've been stuck down with an essay and powerpoint for a university subject but after next week I have just over a month break so here's hoping February is better to me 😊
“everything became amazing; then, everything turned awful. life is always like that - you don't know when you'll suddenly claw your way out of your circumstances, or when you'll go crashing back down into them.“
so-soWildcard was super scary like a lot of action, very fast paced, I personally liked the first book better, I can‘t say too much as it is a sequel, and it would spoil a lot of the first book, but this prequel definitely kept me worried about every character and fear of them being in harms way, the genre of this book is Science Fiction, if you liked Warcross and like super fast paced action books Wildcard is a must read and will satisfy. #3
This book is in a series with warcross, one of the best books I‘ve ever read!
pickThis has more conspiracy and less warcross than the first book, and I really enjoyed it! Really interesting to look at how the technology affect society
so-soI was not as big of a fan of the second in this duology. I felt it was pretty inconsistent and plot holey, and I ended up not really rooting for some of the "good guys" by the end, due to their questionable moral ambiguity. But I loved Emika and the world was still cool so I'm glad I finished it.
pickMy buddy read of Wildcard with @jmtrivera was a lot of fun! It was actually a bit darker than I was expecting, and a couple of plot points surprised me, which was cool. I‘m still not sure if I‘m complete sold on the ending, but I don‘t want to give any spoilers, so I‘ll leave it at that.
Week 3 check-in! My water improved! It looks like my steps did too, but that's mostly from walking around school for trainings and meetings. I did no real exercise (thus the sloth). That's the focus for this week.
@wanderinglynn, @4thhouseontheleft,
@AsYouWish, @ChasingOm, @dariazeoli, @Jerdencon, @kspenmoll, @Balibee146, @daena, @MatchlessMarie
#BFC #BookFitnessChallenge #BFCR3 #TeamFitLit
Every problem has a solution. But after every solution, there's a new problem to tackle, some new challenge to take on. You don't stop after you solve one thing. You keep going, you find a new way and a new path, try to do better and create better. Tearing something down isn't the end; doing something great, or better, something right, is.
pickI definitely liked this in a different way from Warcross. In this one, it was like things had already fallen apart, & I was trying to figure out, along with Emi, what the process for putting things back together would look like. I liked how that road went, mainly because I really liked Emi's relationships w/the people around her. Relationships are the best part of this book, & Lu makes them really meaningful. I had a really good time reading this!
I‘m buddy reading this with @jmtrivera and things are getting interesting!
