
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 & another & 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 & unsettlingthe ending goes off with a bang & a twist
- Publishers Weekly Ryan questions the nature of entertainment & explores the concept of privacy in a world of increasingly sophisticated social media Teens will find themselves drawn in by the story's possibilities & un NERVEd 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 & 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 & hot romance