Twelfth Knight
A Reese's Book Club Pick
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4.1 • 15 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Reese's Book Club Summer YA Pick '24
"YA is a feeling. It's a warm summer day reading in the sun, lots of nostalgia, gushing together over the characters in Twelfth Knight."—Reese Witherspoon
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six (under the penname Olivie Blake) comes Twelfth Knight, a YA romantic comedy and coming of age story about taking up space in the world and learning what it means to let others in.
Viola Reyes is annoyed.
Her painstakingly crafted tabletop game campaign was shot down, her best friend is suggesting she try being more “likable,” and her school's star running back Jack Orsino is the most lackadaisical Student Body President she’s ever seen, which makes her job as VP that much harder. Vi’s favorite escape from the world is the MMORPG Twelfth Knight, but online spaces aren’t exactly kind to girls like her—girls who are extremely competent and have the swagger to prove it. So Vi creates a masculine alter ego, choosing to play as a knight named Cesario to create a safe haven for herself.
But when a football injury leads Jack Orsino to the world of Twelfth Knight, Vi is alarmed to discover their online alter egos—Cesario and Duke Orsino—are surprisingly well-matched.
As the long nights of game-play turn into discussions about life and love, Vi and Jack soon realise they’ve become more than just weapon-wielding characters in an online game. But Vi has been concealing her true identity from Jack, and Jack might just be falling for her offline…
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APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Opposites attract in this delightful YA romance exploring the world of online gaming. Between schoolwork, student council, and annoying classmates like the unserious Jack Orsino, Viola Reyes has her hands full. She finds her release in the online fantasy game Twelfth Knight, but to avoid sexist mistreatment by other gamers, she plays as a male character named Cesario. Then she unexpectedly runs into Jack in the game—who doesn’t realize who he’s talking to. Soon, Jack starts opening up to Cesario in a way that makes Vi see him with new eyes. We loved that Vi is tough and tempestuous, but still open to changing her mind. The romantic tension that begins brewing between her and Jack IRL gave us serious butterflies. This insightfully modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night will have you swooning, whether you know the original or not.
Customer Reviews
SO smart, SO real
This goes on the “must read” list for my 14-year-old girl! And for the record, I wasn’t only “scouting” for her. *I* loved it. This is a smart writer with an incredible talent for hitting on the REAL… including the anger and the humor and the connectedness that are inherent to experiencing life, and that can be challenging to muddle through at ANY age, including—decidedly—at TEEN ages.
(If you’re 50 like me, you may have to look up some of the newer turns of phrase, wink wink… but I’m grateful to know more about the world AS my 14-year-old inhabits it—because it’s vastly different from the world in which I attended high school!)