{"id":14760,"date":"2025-04-23T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=14760"},"modified":"2025-04-23T14:37:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:37:26","slug":"t-is-for-twelfth-knight-her-online-game-territory-not-his-by-alexene-farol-follmuth-ya-fiction-atoz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=14760","title":{"rendered":"T is for TWELFTH KNIGHT, her online game territory, not his! by Alexene Farol Follmuth (YA fiction) #AtoZ"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Such a slacker!
More work for her,
more need to escape into the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What did Viola ever do to deserve a tabletop game group that doesn’t appreciate her well-crafted campaign? Or a student body president elected because he’s California football royalty, leaving all the hard work to her as vice-president? Or having to pretend to be male in Twelfth Night battle game online so she’s not harassed for being a confident, competent Latina?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Injured on a touchdown play, Jack’s PT regimen still leaves the Black teen too much free time – might as well try that Twelfth Night game his buddy recommended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Cesario in-game, Vi immediately recognizes Jack’s avatar (a knight armored in their school colors – ha!) and eventually partners with him in quests, some chat between battles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working together at school on Homecoming Dance plans, Jack asks Vi to figure out why his girlfriend Olivia is growing distant\u2026
Vi’s closest friend Antonia decides not to volunteer at MagiCon fantasy conference, and Jack is her substitute\u2026
College scouts are asking if Jack’s knee will be ready for the playoffs and his future with them\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After in-game chat veers into personal stuff and Jack’s growing attraction to Vi, she allows Jack\/Duke to believe it’s her twin brother that he’s befriended in the game (Renaissance Faire actor, non-gamer Bash is horrified).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bash and Vi’s mom is seriously dating now, Cesario and Duke are closing in on the game’s ultimate prize, and there’s a senior night activity to plan\u2026 argh!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Told in the alternating voices of Jack and Viola, this rom-com blends online battles, hidden identities, self-discovery, and real-life relationships – with strong echoes of Shakespeare’s play, Twelfth Night<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever adopted an online persona that’s you-but-better?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Twelfth Knight \/ Alexene Farol Follmuth. Tor Teen, hardcover 2024, paperback May 2025.[author site https:\/\/www.alexenefarolfollmuth.com\/twelfth-knight<\/a>] [publisher site https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9781250884909\/twelfthknight\/<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Such a slacker!More work for her,more need to escape into the game. What did Viola ever do to deserve a tabletop game group that doesn’t appreciate her well-crafted campaign? Or a student body president elected because he’s California football royalty, leaving all the hard work to her as vice-president? Or having to pretend to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19],"tags":[10,163,22,4,75,11,20,5,16,18,40,46,13,116,43,322,187,39,27,49,184,15,198,9,21,199,57,14,35,143,8],"class_list":["post-14760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","tag-a2z","tag-african-american","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-funny","tag-games","tag-gaming","tag-growing-up","tag-latinx","tag-lgbtq","tag-love","tag-medical","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-relationships","tag-retelling","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-shakespeare","tag-sisters","tag-sports","tag-surprises","tag-theater","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14760"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14765,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14760\/revisions\/14765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}