"A brilliantly written, pacy read " - Irish Examiner
When sixteen-year-old Asha Kennedy discovers her older sister Maya's dead body in their home, her world falls apart. Desperate for answers, and to stay out of the hands of the social services she grew up in, Asha turns to her hacker friends for help.
Her search leads her to Zu Tech, the hit games studio where Maya was a lead coder. As Asha begins to unravel the riddle of her death, she realises that the only way to uncover the truth is from the inside.
Asha ghosts her old life and infiltrates a Zu Tech eSport tournament as they launch 'SHACKLE', the revolutionary Virtual Reality video game Maya was working on - and which hides a monstrous secret...
| ISBN: | 9780702317880 |
| Publication date: | 2nd February 2023 |
| Author: | Triona Campbell |
| Publisher: | Scholastic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 358 pages |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage fiction: Thrillers / suspense Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy romance Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: First / new experiences and growing up / coming of age Technothriller Narrative theme: Coming of age eSports / Professional video gaming Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction Children’s / Teenage fiction: Horror and ghost stories, chillers Crime and Mystery |