{"id":14786,"date":"2025-04-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=14786"},"modified":"2025-04-28T12:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T17:00:04","slug":"x-is-unknown-kepler26-the-invitation-to-abandoned-brothers-to-a-safe-place-by-parvela-sortland-pitkanen-and-witesman-mg-fiction-atoz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=14786","title":{"rendered":"X is unknown: KEPLER26: THE INVITATION to abandoned brothers – to a safe place? by Parvela, Sortland, Pitkanen, and Witesman (MG Fiction) #AtoZ"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Too many people, too much pollution,
not enough work or food,
a computer game offers escape and a secret\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Mom always gone, 13-year-old Ari shoplifts to feed little half-brother Joni. The hoopla about the upcoming space expedition to find another habitable planet doesn’t fill an empty stomach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A lady” gives Joni the video game that everyone is talking about: Kepler62, rumored to have a secret ending if you master all the levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two days, two nights – the game starts with easy quests, then gets much harder. Online gamer forums say no one has solved level 99 yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As they try yet again, Joni insists that Ari choose an unconventional weapon, and onward they go in the dark tunnel\u2026 success!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then things the boys have never ever seen appear on-screen – mountains and trees and a meadow where a tall pale boy runs with a kite as a young dark boy follows\u2026 is that them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joni wakes up with a fever, so they go to the health center where a very young girl with implanted medical knowledge prescribes a medication that triggers alarms when they accept it. The lady who gave Joni the game helps them escape, but the men in grey suits are fast!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did the government just now discover the boys’ mother hasn’t been home in a while?
Oh, those men’s eyes have that glint like the girl doctor – have their brains been altered, too?
Joni is sure there’s something else in the game – can the brothers find it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This first book in the Kepler62 illustrated novel series (https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/series\/Kepler62<\/a>) was simultaneously released in Finnish and Norwegian, then translated into English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s your favorite reality-escape video game?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Kepler62: The Invitation \/ Timo Parvela & Bjorn Sortland; art by Pasi Pitkanen; translated by Owen Witesman. Arctis Books, 2023. [Timo’s site https:\/\/www.timoparvela.fi\/en<\/a>] [Bjorn’s site https:\/\/bjornsortland.no\/boker.html<\/a>] [Pasi’s site https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pp_pitkanen\/<\/a>] [Owen’s site https:\/\/www.suomitranslation.com\/about\/<\/a>] [publisher site https:\/\/www.arctis-books.com\/books\/the-invitation<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Too many people, too much pollution,not enough work or food,a computer game offers escape and a secret\u2026 With Mom always gone, 13-year-old Ari shoplifts to feed little half-brother Joni. The hoopla about the upcoming space expedition to find another habitable planet doesn’t fill an empty stomach. “A lady” gives Joni the video game that everyone […]<\/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":[69,237,19,68,80,51,62],"tags":[10,90,22,75,5,70,16,18,116,43,27,49,184,111,31,67,132,193,15,21,66,342,35,33,58,308,28],"class_list":["post-14786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","category-future","category-graphic-novel","category-mystery","category-science-fiction","tag-a2z","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-brothers","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-gaming","tag-growing-up","tag-medical","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-non-us-artist","tag-non-us-author","tag-outer-space","tag-personal-finance","tag-prejudice","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-series","tag-space","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-technology","tag-translation","tag-villains"],"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\/14786","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=14786"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14791,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786\/revisions\/14791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}