Review: Looking for Group

Looking for Group by Alexis Hall
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Drew is in college studying design, he hopes to be a game designer one day. Although he loves playing MMORPG he also loves sports and hanging out with his diverse group of friends playing board games and talking trash. Then he realises that he is no longer enjoying playing his favourite game Heroes of Legend (HoL) with his current team after he loses his rag at a teammate taking a weapon that he needed. By chance he comes across a very different team, one who enjoy the game for its own sake and not just for climbing the rankings and racing through the levels.

Drew is particularly taken with Kit, a healer in his new team and starts to fall for her online, only to discover than 'she' is in real life (IRL) a shy guy who lives much of his life online. Shock over, Drew and Kit start to fall for each other IRL but they are so different, can they make it work?

This didn't really work for me - I think part of the problem is that there are a ton of footnotes which just do not work well on a Kindle so 50% of the time I had no idea what people were doing/saying. I would say this would go over the head of anyone who hasn't done at least a little MMORPG and the in-game chat became a little irritating. I loved Drew and Kit and I found their 'tiff' very easy to understand from both sides but as a non-gamer the rest was lost on me.

I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley.

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