Penguin Teen Game-Changers: Warcross! Win ARCs! Ask Marie Lu!

Hey guys! I am so thrilled and excited to share this with you :D This fall, Penguin Teen is having a major YA campaign that includes five of their leading titles—the first one being Marie Lu's WARCROSS that I am featuring today! To discover the next title in the Penguin Teen Game-Changers Campaign, be sure to check out The Young Folks blog tomorrow for the official reveal!

5/15 – Brittany’s Book Rambles – WARCROSS

5/16 – The Young Folks – ????????

Plus, that blog post will direct you to the next day's reveal, and so on! ;D

Now I don't know if you all know how much I love Marie Lu's Legend and The Young Elites trilogies, but I ADORE THEM! Marie Lu is the epitome of what it means to be a game-changing writer. She has the magical ability to play with your emotions. She tugs at your heart strings and crushes your soul, all while simultaneously giving you so many different types of feels that you don't know what to do with yourself. No matter how fantastical the book's setting is, Lu's characters are always real and relatable, and you absolutely cannot help but care for them. When they love, you love. When they hurt or cry or grieve or suffer, so do you. And when there is loss and carnage, you feel like bits of you have died as well. As beautiful as it is poignant and timeless, Marie Lu's writing will surely make you laugh and rage and sob—and in the end, you will surely thank her for the inimitable (and game-changing!) experience.

Needless to say, this is everything I expect from WARCROSS, so I hope you've all pre-ordered it and are as excited to read it as I am! Until then, here is an excerpt of the book to tide you over! Additionally . . . I WILL BE INTERVIEWING MARIE LU SOON at BookCon's Penguin Young Readers Influencer Breakfast! *flails* So please leave me a comment if you have any fun questions you want me to ask her, and I'll do my best to include as many as I can! I will be sharing about that experience, as well as her answers, in a future post so look out for that :D 

WARCROSS by Marie Lu

Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers

Pub Date: September 12th 2017

Buy it: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu—when a game called 
Warcross takes the world by storm, one girl hacks her way into its dangerous depths.

For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn’t just a game—it’s a way of life. The obsession started ten years ago and its fan base now spans the globe, some eager to escape from reality and others hoping to make a profit. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down Warcross players who bet on the game illegally. But the bounty-hunting world is a competitive one, and survival has not been easy. To make some quick cash, Emika takes a risk and hacks into the opening game of the international Warcross Championships—only to accidentally glitch herself into the action and become an overnight sensation.

Convinced she’s going to be arrested, Emika is shocked when instead she gets a call from the game’s creator, the elusive young billionaire Hideo Tanaka, with an irresistible offer. He needs a spy on the inside of this year’s tournament in order to uncover a security problem . . . and he wants Emika for the job. With no time to lose, Emika’s whisked off to Tokyo and thrust into a world of fame and fortune that she’s only dreamed of. But soon her investigation uncovers a sinister plot, with major consequences for the entire Warcross empire.

In this sci-fi thriller, #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu conjures an immersive, exhilarating world where choosing who to trust may be the biggest gamble of all.

Marie Lu is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling series The Young Elites, as well as the blockbuster bestselling Legend series. She graduated from the University of Southern California and jumped into the video game industry as an artist. Now a full-time writer, she spends her spare time reading, drawing, playing games, and getting stuck in traffic. She lives in Los Angeles with one husband, one Chihuahua mix, and one Pembroke Welsh corgi.

Connect with Marie: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Pinterest | FB | Tumblr

Check out the WARCROSS pre-order details here!

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