The title… the author… the cover… everything about this book screamed at me to read read read!
Thanks to the author as well as Sourcebooks Casablanca for the review copy!
Drew’s always prided himself on being the “right” kind of nerd. He plays sports, has a solid group of friends, and never had any problem talking to girls. Sure, he spends time playing Heroes of Legend, the biggest MMORPG on the planet, but it’s just a fun hobby, not his identity. Falling for someone in a video game? Not his style.
Until it is.
Enter Kit: witty, kind, razor-sharp, and a healer who’s saved Drew’s virtual skin more times than he can count. She’s also, turns out, a boy in real life. The realization knocks Drew off-balance, but it doesn’t take long for him to figure out the simple truth—he likes Kit, no matter Kit’s gender.
The real challenge? Kit’s reality is leagues apart from Drew’s. Being online is his life, and while he’s willing to come out of his shell an inch at a time, there’s such a wide gulf between them that Drew’s left wondering: can love truly bridge the distance…or are they fated to remain in separate worlds forever?
Y’all, it feels like this book was written directly to me, and not because I met my wife in WoW… in… I mean… uh… pretty much this exact same way? Okay… it’s probably that.
Looking for Group is the story of Drew, who is the best geared tank on the server – and when a roll doesn’t go his way in his elite raiding guild, he ragequits and joins a much more casual guild, where he meets Kit – whose character is a girl and whom he assumes is a girl until he learns that OH NO he’s a boy and OH NO that doesn’t matter at all actually.
This book is going to resonate pretty well with people who played WoW circa… oh 2004-2006 or so. I mean it did with me, anyway, but like I said, my wife and I met that way. Some of the raids and zones that are described as part of Drew and Kit’s adventures are nearly identical to ones she and I were in /tells with each other falling for each other while poking fun at our guild leaders for being way too serious about a big pretend fight with a big pretend dragon/fire elemental/other, bigger dragon/evil tentacle eyeball thing/dragon again but undead this time?
I really liked Kit from the get-go but I had a hard time with Drew at first because Drew is the exact sort of person I really didn’t like at the time. But, they are both only like… college aged, and Drew did manage to grow on me eventually, so it all worked out. Admittedly there was a lot of ‘Kit he doesn’t deserve you!’ in my readthrough, but all told I had a good time with this book, and it was a quick and entertaining read. 4.5/5 stars!~
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