Guy in Real Life by @sbrezenoffv #Review #Thanks2 @HarperTeen @weiss_squad

From the acclaimed author of Brooklyn, Burning comes Guy in Real Life, an achingly real and profoundly moving love story about two Minnesota teens whose lives become intertwined through school, role-playing games, and a chance two-a.m. bike accident.

It is Labor Day weekend in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and boy and girl collide on a dark street at two thirty in the morning: Lesh, who wears black, listens to metal, and plays MMOs; Svetlana, who embroiders her skirts, listens to Björk and Berlioz, and dungeon masters her own RPG. They should pick themselves up, continue on their way, and never talk to each other again.

But they don't.

This is a story of two people who do not belong in each other's lives, who find each other at a time when they desperately need someone who doesn't belong in their lives. A story of those moments when we act like people we aren't in order to figure out who we are. A story of the roles we all play-at school, at home, with our friends, and without our friends-and the one person who might show us what lies underneath it all.

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Biography

Steve Brezenoff is the author of young adult novels Guy in Real Life; The Absolute Value of -1; and Brooklyn, Burning, as well as dozens of chapter books for younger readers. He grew up on Long Island, spent his twenties in Brooklyn, and now lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Beth, who is also a writer for children, and their children Sam and Etta.

First off if you are a RPG gamer then this one is for you!  Now don't get me wrong I played WOW for a while. But even that didn't prepare me for this book.  The title made me think it might be an LGBT book but its not.  The one main character decides to play the RPG game and decides to play a girl. So don't let that throw you off if your not into that kind of book.  

Well this one I just don't think worked out well for me as I'm not a gamer and I think that the characters were lacking just a bit.  So if this sounds like something that you would be in to deff. pick it up and try it out.  

I might grab a finished copy and come back to this for my Second Look list. 

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Posted in: 2 Stars, Edelweiss, HarperCollins, Review, Steve Brezenoff, Young Adult