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Summary: GREAT!
Review: Gianine is a girl who goes to a video game kind of place, but at this place you actually feel like you are in the game! She has to make it to the end of the game without dying, or she will be sent back to the begginning to start again...She gets stuck in the game, and she has no idea who to trust. You will fall head-over-heals in love with Kenric! There is an unexpected twist at the end, but I won't ruin it for you...
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Summary: Heir Apparent the best book I have ever read
Review: Hello,the book I am reviewing is called Heir Apparent. The author is Vivian Vande Velde. The number of pages is 315. The genre is non-fiction and fiction. The setting of Heir Apparent takes place in present time and the 1400's or 1500's with knights,kings,queens,princesses,and princes. The main character is Giannine. She goes to this museum where they have games like an arcade. Giannine has played almost every game that they have until one day they have a new game called Heir Apparent where you have to be a king of a town, but things do go wrong that make the game complicated. Three things that I liked about this book were it was awesome because because I love books that have alot of action,it has alot of and suspense and you can relate to Giannine at times like when she fell out of the tree and hurt herself,Also it's very funny and scary. I would recommend this book to friends and family. This book is really great. Maybe you would like it if you don't mind some head choppings and other nasty things. Go check out Heir Apparent at a bookstore near you.
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Summary: A little disappointing
Review: I am a high school student who, in the process of slogging through junior-year English classes, went to the library to find something fun to read. I found a book by Vivian Vande Velde, read the blurb, and thought "Ooooo." That book was Heir Apparent, and after having finished the thing in about five hours, am a little disappointed.It starts of interestingly enough with the main character becoming trapped in a video game, making humorous remarks (yes, I'll admit they ARE pretty funny) and getting killed in nasty ways. Again. And again. And again. And again. After kicking the bucket about eight or nine times, Giannine/Janine's frustration was nothing compared to mine. The game story is periodically interrupted by dire emails from the VR company's owner, warning that Giannine has less and less time before her brain is reduced to eggnog by damaged equipment. Unfortunately, the suspence doesn't go much farther than that. We know what's going on all of the time, and we pretty much know what's going to happen next all the way until the anticlimactic finale. So, with that said, there is nothing left for me to do but go write some drivel about whiny Hemingway characters for my English teacher. Siiiiiiiiiiigh.
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Summary: This book was amazing!
Review: I loved this book so much. It wasn't to adult for me, or it wasn't childish. It was in-between. It's the perfect book for teenage gamers and I really enjoyed it. The end was a little bit questioning, but I loved it.
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Summary: A Game of Survival
Review: I work in a library and have a lot of books vying for my precious reading time. The beautiful cover of Heir Apparent caught my eye and also being a story about medieval times, a pet subject, I took it home. I read this incredible book in one sitting, then read the last half again in another sitting. Covering modern, as well as timeless, themes in a fourteen year old girl's life, Heir Apparent carries suspense, strategy, and romance in this coming of age tale. Set in a futuristic America, Giannine, our heroine with a bit of attitude, plays a virtual reality game that is set in a mythical kingdom with a time limit, a crown to win, and three scheming, albeit gorgeous, brothers and a stepmother who (surprise!) doesn't care if she were to meet her doom at any moment. Making this even more complicated is the fact that due to damaged equipment, our heroine must win within a certain amount of time, or she'll suffer brain damage from the game. One of the most touching things about Giannine is the way she brings her personal struggles and heartache into the game and in doing so learns how to better deal with reality. Always entertaining and often quite hilarious, (and made me cry at the end) I would recommend Heir Apparent to anyone of any age looking for a fun, but heartfelt, read.
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Summary: Good book!
Review: It was very entertaining... It's about a girl that plays a virtual-reality game(really good technology in that book) which literally puts her into the game, in it you can feel pain, smell, etc...when your killed, you just feel woozy and the game restarts over. The Game is called Heir Apparent... the point of the game is to be crowned the heir of the kingdom... but first survive your enemies and to choose your allies wisely. While she is playing the first level for the first time... some ppl(those that oppose games etc.. thinking it's bad for childern) barge into the arcade and mess around with the gaming systems, which includes messing up the Heir Apparent game. So the girl is stuck there playing for quite a long time... to get out of the game she must win it... before the game goes into overdrive, which could do a lot of damage to her mind. Vivian Vande Velde is a wonderful author! Check out Companions of the Night, Conjurer Princess, A Well Timed-Enchantment, Dragon's Bait...all by her! Another author to check out is Marianne Curley's Old Magic and The Named trilogy =P
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Summary: good book
Review: ok i was at school the other day and we were taking a test thing that day and we had to get a book. i told my friend to get this book jokingly but somehow I enden up taking it out. i started reading it thinking this book would be really boring. I thought it was about midevil times and stuff but it turns out not to be that at all. she IS in those times but not actually because she's playing virtual reality. This book is not boring. a few chapters towards the end were a little boring but i finished this book in about 4 days.. which it usually takes me a month to read a book because most books i read are boring and i dont have enought time, but i MADE time for this book. so over all this was a good book. but might not be for some people and also might be disapointing if they get it thinking it's about queens and kings and stuff.
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Summary: Um...read this book?? (ha ha)
Review: OK, right off, I'm going to admit that I'm biased towards this book for two reasons: I've met the author, and it takes place in Rochester, NY which is coincidentally where I live. Also it has a cool cover.
However even if you live in...I don't know, Utah...(no offense) you'll like reading this. Vivian Vande Velde has a knack for coming up with good characters and, of course, she has an awesome sense of humor. Even her chapter titles are funny...no small feat, I assure you.
In Heir Apparent, Gianninne (I'm sure I spelled that wrong) is playing a total immersion virtual reality game when a group of angry people protesting fantasy break in to the building and damage the equipment. It so happens that if Gianninne doens't win the game, soon, she'll die. However, make no mistake: this isn't a drama...its a comedy. (or, though I hate to say it, a dramedy.)
Inside the game, she is Janine, the lost heir of King Cynric. To win, she has to ally herself with one of her halfbrothers, make peace with barbarians, fight a dragon, get a magical ring, make decisions regarding laws, answer three riddles, regain her treasury, and deal with a large group of bored ghosts who have decided to hang around. And more. This is a great book that I would recommend buying. That way if you dont like it, you can cut out the page at the back of the book and start your own DOWN WITH FANTASY protest!! (Unfortunately if you get it from the library you cant cut out the back page.)
-Katherine
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Summary: Apparent-ly fun!
Review: Okay, so the real reason I snatched this book off the library shelf was because I liked the colorful spine. And because I knew that this book was wedged between two other Vande Velde novels; why not? I liked the author, and it sounded like my kind of book. But once I started reading, I couldn't tear myself away from the pages. It was not cliche as so many library finds proved to be; it was original, witty, and dead-on funny. Giannine Bellisario is a fourteen year old girl who lives (apparently) many years in the future, in a time of smart computers and talking buses. Arcades that will hook you up to a computer and let you be "in" the game. Which is exactly what Giannine is planning to do with the certificate her father gave (suprisingly on-time)to her for her birthday. Giannine selects the game she wants to be in; Heir Apparent, a semi-difficult role-play game in which she is to claim the throne to her country, left to her by her father the King. The unknowing Heir Apparent must work around their scheming siblings and play the game just right to get out. Easy, and if you fail, no big deal, it was fun playing. Right? Well, maybe not for Giannine. Everything wouyld have been fine if the people from CPOC (citizens to protect our children), attempting to "save the children from their imaginations", hadn't messed up the system while she was still hooked up to the machine. Now Giannine has only a limited time left to complete the game correctly--or they won't be able to get her out alive. Fun, furturistic, and true to the life of a fourteen year old girl (from one), this novel was a good read. I would reccomend it to anyone who has an open mind and who likes an original story. However, I do think that some people would think that this novel was just not to your taste; if you like this kind of thing, no doubt you'll love it, but if you aren't into this kind of novel, you'd probably hate it. The reason I left off the fifth star was because I felt sometimes the storyline lagged, otherwise it deserved full ratings. Okay, so have fun with this book! I know I did. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Bye! -Lia
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Summary: Ben Richview middle
Review: The book started off with a girl around Her birthday and she wanted to go a video game arcade but the bus witch was controlled by a computer told the girl that she could not take the girl to the arcade becausethere was an angrey mob in front of the arcade store so she could not take her there because the computer was not programed to let people go to danger so the computer told her that she would take the girl to a muesum ansd the bus said only if you promise not to go to the game.
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