Nerve
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4.4 • 172 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The New York Times bestseller is now a major motion picture starring Emma Roberts and Dave Franco, in theaters this July!
A high-stakes online game of dares turns deadly
When Vee is picked to be a player in NERVE, an anonymous game of dares broadcast live online, she discovers that the game knows her. They tempt her with prizes taken from her ThisIsMe page and team her up with the perfect boy, sizzling-hot Ian. At first it's exhilarating--Vee and Ian's fans cheer them on to riskier dares with higher stakes. But the game takes a twisted turn when they're directed to a secret location with five other players for the Grand Prize round. Suddenly they're playing all or nothing, with their lives on the line. Just how far will Vee go before she loses NERVE?
Debut author Jeanne Ryan delivers an un-putdownable suspense thriller.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Reeling from a recent personal crisis, high school junior Vee is tired of designing costumes and applying makeup backstage she wants to be in the spotlight for once. Playing against her sensible character, Vee tries out for Nerve, a racy reality game show fanatically watched online, on phones, and on TV. Debut author Ryan's view of the ridiculousness and pervasiveness of contemporary fame-obsessed culture is not subtle. After Vee pours water over her head while wearing a white top at a coffee shop and yelling, "Cold water makes me hot," she moves on to additional humiliating dares along with her Nerve partner, Ian, all broadcast live to Nerve's paying customers. Ryan's story is thought-provoking and unsettling, though even with the adrenaline rush the game provides, Vee's motivation to keep playing taking on increasingly sexual and dangerous tasks requires a stretch of the imagination. While the ending goes off with a bang and a twist, the theme of doing anything for attention and money (and then expecting privacy) plays out heavily. Ages 14 up.
Customer Reviews
Nothing like the movie. At all
I watched the movie first and was expecting to just read the movie plot when I picked up the book. Not at all. The movie doesn't follow the book at all and I'm glad to say that Nerve the book is a million and 6 times better.
Can’t even download it.
I bought this book a couple months ago and had to archive it for space. I can’t even read it.
Book Is Amazing
People keep saying they don’t like how the book came out because it didn’t resemble the movie. The book came out 4 years before the movie. I read it when I saw the Nerve trailer because I thought the movie would be rated R & thought it had a good plot. I absolutely LOVED the book & couldn’t wait to see the movie. I was surprised to see so many changes in the movie. I do like the ending in the movie a lot, but I was surprised to see Vee & ‘Mathew’ relationship to be so different in the movie it almost made her stalker like that she had a crush on him. The dares were also far better & the prizes were better because they gave us more insight on the people & showed how the game was controlling their lives even more by looking through their phones to find what they’d like. All in all the movie was great, but I still wish they would make a movie exactly like the book.