This was really fun, and something that I appreciate a lot as a fan of eSports and everything that comes along with gaming nowadays. Vell just wants to vibe and have a good time, and honestly I don't understand the major issues that Min Jun has with that. I'm cheering for Team Guillotine, off with the king's head!

Full review in School Library Journal

This was a fun title about friendship, finding your place, and focusing on esports, which there aren't many of right now. As big as esports is, there aren't many fiction stories about it, and there are even less showing female protagonists! I enjoyed watching the small team come together and the training montage of them getting better at the game.

This had the elements to get me excited. Took around 100 pages to get to a point that wanted to know what would happen next. Focus is on game mechanics with very little character development. There is obviously a lot in the characters' past. The reader is left to guess on too many things making it hard to care about anyone.

I enjoyed this title, and love the VR esports vibes. However, the overwrought conflict between Vell and Jun was absolutely the kind of frustrating artificial conflict that drives me bonkers in stories. I'm not against the premise of Jun wanting his own thing, and not wanting Vell to dominate everything they do together, but the lack of emotional build-up didn't work for me.

Fun fights and a vibrant world, though.

Vell's best friend Jun has just moved back and reaches out to play a VR game, but then his character blocks Vell. Vell finds out Jun is now a well known esports player and Vell is determined to beat him at his own game so she finds a team of players and enters the competition against him. This volume sees the set up of the gaming environment and how the roles within the game work and hopefully future volumes would explain more of Vell and Jun's friendship.