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If those parts end up being important, somebody let me know and maybe I'll give it another go. I just couldn't sift through what seemed to me to be filler in an already long (400 page) book. I've read that there is a good twist at the end of the book, and I really wanted to get there. I don't really know what was happening in the MMO, because I skipped over most of that. It seemed nothing much was happening in the 'real' story.

Their quirkiness gave me a bit of an Eleanor & Park vibe. But.unless you are interested in MMOs, there's a lot of extra material here that I found overwhelming. There are other nuances to the story and characters that make it interesting. It turns out Lesh and Svetlana go to the same school and they begin to spend lunches together. And this is who we spend pages and pages with - the elf Svvetlana in the MMO. Greg doesn't know that Lesh has become obsessed with the game too, but he's using another character he created. Lesh's best friend, Greg finally convinces him to create a persona and pay his favorite MMO with him. She crashes and in the process one of her prized possessions, a sketchbook, ends up in a puddle. Lesh gets drunk one night, and on his way home he runs into Svetlana, who is on her bicycle. The characters are colorful and interesting. In the blurb the author is compared to Rainbow Rowell and John Green, and I can understand the comparison, but don't let that cause your expectations to be too high. There are pages and pages of descriptions of the characters playing MMOs (Massively Multiplayer Online Games - like World of Warcraft.) To me, at least so far, these episodes did nothing to advance the plot of Guy in Real Life whatsoever. At 41% (about 164 pages) I gave up on Guy in Real Life.

Guy in real life by steve brezenoff