Nerve - Softcover

Ryan, Jeanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1471146162 ISBN 13: 9781471146169

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's UK, 2016

Synopsis

Read the book before you see 2016's hottest YA film, starring Emma Roberts, Dave Franco & Juliette Lewis.

Are you playing the game, or is the game playing you?
A high-stakes online game of dares turns deadly.

Vee doesn't know if she has the guts to play NERVE, an online game of high-stakes dares. With Ian on her team, it's easy to agree to another dare. And another. And another. At first it's thrilling, as the manipulative audience, or 'Watchers', cheer them on to riskier challenges. But things quickly get out of hand. Just how far will Vee go before she loses NERVE?

"Ryan's story is thought-provoking and unsettling...the ending goes off with a bang and a twist." - Publishers Weekly
"Ryan questions the nature of entertainment and explores the concept of privacy in a world of increasingly sophisticated social media. Teens will find themselves drawn in by the story's possibilities, and unNERVEd by its outcome. Give this to Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games fans." - School Library Journal
"The commentary on today's life-as-public-spectacle society is sound. The pacing is relentless, and readers will find themselves flipping madly to the very last page." - Kirkus Reviews 

Debut author Jeanne Ryan delivers on a Black Mirror meets Pretty Little Liars novel full of action, suspense and hot romance.

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Review:

Finally, the Vine generation has its own Fight Club' (vulture.com 2016-05-05)

Super intense (MTV.com 2016-05-11)

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist meets The Game (popsugar.com 2016-05-12)

The pacing is relentless, and readers will find themselves flipping madly to the very last page (Kirkus Reviews 2012-07-22)

About the Author:

Jeanne Ryan has lived all over the world, raised in a family with eleven brothers and sisters. She spent her early childhood in Hawaii and the rest of her growing-up years trying to figure out a way to get back there, with stops in South Korea , Michigan and Germany along the way. Before writing fiction, she tried her hand at many things, including wargame simulation and youth development research. But she decided it was much more fun to work on stories than statistics. These days, she still loves Hawaii but has found her home under the moody skies of the Pacific Northwest. www.jeanneryan.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's UK
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1471146162
• ISBN 13: 9781471146169
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320