was curious to read this book as it is set in the ‘gaming ‘ world. Although I have have some minor gaming experience I wondered if I would appreciate it. I loved it – and learnt a lot about gaming culture.
Lauren works as PR for a gaming company that has teams of fulltime gamers employed in competitions etc.
Sam is an amateur gamer and a woman. She is selected to join the team – the first woman on the team in a field dominated by men (and boys – people age out of gaming in their 20s apparently).

The boys live in dorms – and Sam can’t live with them so she moves in with Lauren. There’s more than one bed – but they are in forced, close proximity.

They get closer as we witness the online abuse that Sam is subjected too – especially as she is good – better than a lot of the boys. The trolling isn’t just online though – there is a fair amount of misogyny headed he way from the team players and management.

This was really interesting – and must have taken a fair bot of research – opening my eyes to the world of gaming. I’m not at all surprised by the misogynist trolling though.

As the relationship between Lauren and Sam progresses career choices force them geographically apart for a while.

There is no epilogue but the end ties things up nicely with a cute aeroplane surprise.

I enjoyed this book far more than I was expecting so I would recommend it. Although there are a fair amount of ‘youths’ in the story I would not put this book in a young adult category.