{"id":56,"date":"2012-10-29T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2012-10-29T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T15:00:00","slug":"deadly-pink-by-vivian-van-velde-fiction-escape-into-virtual-reality-game-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Pink, by Vivian Van Velde (fiction) – escape into virtual reality game, forever?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sights, sounds, smells…
How close to your video game action do you want to be?
What if the game can plug directly into your brain?<\/p>\n

The Rasmussem Corporation wants players to be totally immersed in their role-playing games<\/a> for hours at a time – for the proper fee. <\/p>\n

But there is a time limit for staying in a virtual reality<\/a> world, so unbreakable fail-safes pull players out of game before their brains get too detached from physical reality.<\/p>\n

Unless a computer whiz like Emily entirely disables the fail-safes on purpose to trap herself in the pink and sparkly pre-teen gameworld she was helping design… and younger sister Grace must battle through to rescue her, before it’s too late.<\/p>\n

You’ll find Deadly Pink<\/i> in hardback now at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a>, with author Vivian Vande Velde’s earlier books featuring Rasmussem games (User Unfriendly<\/i>\u00a0 and Heir Apparent<\/i>) available in paperback.
So, how long would you want to stay in a virtual world? (dragons optional)
**kmm <\/p>\n

Book info<\/b>: Deadly Pink (Rasmussem, book 3) \/ Vivian Van Velde. Harcourt, 2012 [author’s website<\/a>] \u00a0 [Deadly Pink Facebook page<\/a>] \u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>] [book trailer] \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

\nMy Recommendation<\/b>: Grace is just slogging through high school, while her brilliant older sister Emily is at college with full scholarships for computer science. So why does Rasmussem Corporation need Grace\u2019s help to get Emily out of a virtual reality game?<\/div>\n

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Their mother is frantic with worry, Dad is away on business, and the note Emily left behind sounds very, very final. Her body is there, hooked up to the virtual reality game panel, but she\u2019s disabled every fail-safe that would allow the company to bring her back to the real world.<\/div>\n
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So away Grace goes, into the cotton-candy and unicorns world that Emily\u2019s team was developing for preteen girls. Butterflies that give gold coins, quests to collect flower bouquets and tiaras, tea parties and fancy dress balls \u2013 Emily wants to stay in little-princess land forever?<\/div>\n
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When Em ignores Grace during her first venture into the game, it might be a fluke. But when big sister has her thrown out of the manor house, Grace knows something is truly wrong. Wish-granting sprites with a grudge, close calls with disaster \u2013 every time Grace reboots and re-enters the game, something else goes haywire (and this is a game for kids?).<\/div>\n
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And the clock keeps ticking down, edging ever-closer to the known-safe time limits for Emily\u2019s brain to stay in virtual reality without a break.<\/div>\n
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What\u2019s so wrong in the real world that Em has to escape to the virtual world that she helped create? What will happen to Emily\u2019s brain if they can\u2019t get her out of the game in time? Can Grace convince her to come home?\u00a0 (One of 5,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>) Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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