Week 36 Review: Twelfth Knight

From Goodreads:

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Atlas Six (under the penname Olivie Blake) comes Twelfth Knight, a grumpy/sunshine YA romantic comedy and coming of age story about taking up space in the world and learning what it means to let others in.

Viola Reyes is annoyed.

Her painstakingly crafted tabletop game campaign was shot down, her best friend is suggesting she try being more "likable," and school running back Jack Orsino is the most lackadaisical Student Body President she's ever seen, which makes her job as VP that much harder. Vi's favorite escape from the world is the MMORPG Twelfth Knight, but online spaces aren't exactly kind to girls like her―girls who are extremely competent and have the swagger to prove it. So Vi creates a masculine alter ego, choosing to play as a knight named Cesario to create a safe haven for herself.

But when a football injury leads Jack Orsino to the world of Twelfth Knight, Vi is alarmed to discover their online alter egos―Cesario and Duke Orsino―are surprisingly well-matched.

As the long nights of game-play turn into discussions about life and love, Vi and Jack soon realise they've become more than just weapon-wielding characters in an online game. But Vi has been concealing her true identity from Jack, and Jack might just be falling for her offline…

My Review:
I had a really great time reading this book! I've loved her writing as Olivie Blake, and I was really looking forward to this one, about a gamer girl, and the football shining star! It was an absolute delight to read it, I had to continue reading! 

Vi is annoyed, but she's also angry. When you think of geeks and nerds, you mainly think of guys, because girls aren't considered to care for these things, to not understand, to not be good at them. I think things are slowly changing, but Vi has been raised seeing these things, and I'm with her on how aggravating it is! 

Watching Vi and Jack clash in real life over his student body president duties and his love life, and then bonding online where she knows who he is and he thinks she's her brother, yeah, it was messy and complicated and I loved it! I especially loved how he dealt with it after it came out.

At one point, I was wondering if things were going to be switched up, because there was Olivia and her story-I could've seen this story doing a bait and switch and have Vi and Olivia end up together, because they were cute together. But I did enjoy seeing Vi and Jack together. 

Loved reading this book, and I'd love to read more from Alexene Farol Follmuth! 

Author: Alexene Farol Follmuth
Read: September 6th, 2024 
Source: NetGalley  
Reason Why: Love her writing and it sounded really good, and it's a SAC 2024 Book! 
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Published: May 28th 2024

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars