Soon, Elusion® will change the world and life as we know it.
A new technology called Elusion is sweeping the country. An app, visor and wristband will virtually transport you to an exotic destination where adventure can be pursued without the complications—or consequences—of real life.
Regan is an Elusion insider. Or at least she used to be. Her father invented the program, and her best friend, Patrick, heir to the tech giant Orexis, is about to release it nationwide. But ever since her father's unexpected death, Regan can't bear to Escape, especially since waking up from the dream means crashing back to her grim reality.
Still, when there are rumors of trouble in Elusion—accusations that it's addictive and dangerous— Regan is determined to defend it. But the critics of Elusion come from surprising sources, including Josh, the handsome skeptic with his own personal stakes. As Regan investigates the claims, she discovers a disturbing web of secrets. She will soon have to choose between love and loyalty…a decision that will affect the lives of millions.
Suspense, thrills, and romance fuel this near-future story about the seductive nature of a perfect virtual world, and how far one girl will go to uncover the truth behind the illusions.
From Goodreads:
In this sequel to Elusion, three teens fight a virtual reality program that threatens to destroy their minds. Dangerous secrets and lies add up to a thrilling futuristic fantasy with an Inception-inspired twist.
Elusion was hailed as an exciting leap in technology—until users began to disappear amid rumors of addiction. Regan's search for the truth led her and her new love interest, Josh, to Etherworld. Etherworld is a dimension hidden deep beyond Elusion's firewall, where players can hide, and ultimately fight back. Regan's father and others are here working to destroy Etherworld, but the longer they stay the less likely they'll be able to return to the real world alive.
Escape means attacking Elusion from within the program. It's dangerous and it's a puzzle. And even if they manage it, how will they be able to stop Orexis from distributing Elusion to the masses when the people who run it are corrupt?
My Review:
Well, it took me forever to make time to read Elusion! I mean, I've had an ARC of it, but it took getting Etherworld that really propelled me into reading the both of them (which is what's going to happen with Warrior via King, and Death Sworn via Death Marked!)
The whole idea of Elusion, a place to do pretty much anything in a computer program, while your body doesn't actually move-or come to harm-is pretty interesting. Their world is pretty destroyed, well, nature is, that they have to were O2 masks a good amount of the time outdoors, and Elusion recreates some of natures destroyed beauties. True, there's aftershock when coming out, but still, all in all, something that I almost wish was real so we could have it!
Or maybe not, because of all the harm that it causes in these books, and the facts that are found, especially the big one in Etherworld, which was pretty cool, even if it made things harder for them to fight back!
For me, these books were more action books then anything else, a lot happens in them, so that while some things hurt the main characters, those parts weren't as interesting as everything else that was going on, finding out the truth about her dad, and yeah, fighting Elusion!
Favourite lines from Elusion: "Patrick: How awesome am I? Go on tell me, I can take it. ;-)" A bit egotistical, that I can say!
Favourite lines from Etherworld: "Any kid of David's is a friend of mine." Well, that's kinda weird, plus Regan is David's only kid! "I'm flat on my back, lying on the cold, hard ground." Remind anyone of some music lyrics? "Yeah. On fire. In hell. No big surprise, right?" Right! "Avery. Me. A kitchen. A cake. And now a knife..." Yeah, not the safest of situations! "'And take off with your boyfriend on his motorcycle.' 'Yeah, right!' 'Okay, that last part was hard for me to say. But I mean it.'" Yeah, not really what a dad tells his daughter most often!
This was a really great, enjoyable duology, and I hope Claudia Gabel and Chery Klam write more books together!
Authors: Claudia Gabel & Cheryl Klam
Series: Elusion #1, 2
Read: October 11th, 15th, 2014
Source: Edelweiss
Reason Why: They both sounded good, beautiful covers, and they're 2014 Dystopia Books and Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2014 Books! And Etherworld is going to be a WoW Book!
Publisher: Katherine Tegan Books
Published: March 18th 2014
Expected Publication: March 30th 2015
Elusion:
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| 5/5 Hearts |
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| 5/5 Books |
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| 4.5/5 Stars |
Etherworld:
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| 5/5 Hearts |
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| 5/5 Books |
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| 4.5/5 Stars |
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