Ratings25
Average rating3
It started off great, I ignored the atrocious instalove and enjoyed the story until the finale challenge part of the story.
The ending completely sucked.
If you're one of the people who come here after watching the movie, you're in it for a surprise...
ARE YOU PLAYING THE GAME OR IS THE GAME PLAYING YOU?Vee doesn't know if she has the guts to play NERVE, an anonymous online game of dares. But whoever's behind the game knows exactly what she wants, enticing her with lustworthy prizes and a sizzling-hot partner. With Ian on her team, it's easy to agree to another dare. And another. And another. At first it's thrilling as the Watchers cheer them on to more dangerous challenges. But suddenly the game turns deadly. Will Vee and Ian risk their lives for the Grand Prize dare, or will they lose NERVE?
Nerve is a book that gets you on the edge of your seat. It is thrilling, it is funny, it has cute guys and it has a plottwist. What more could you want?
The dares get more daring while you read on. It started of as a joke and ended with a life threatening dare.
I really enjoyed reading this book. The characters were loveable and I could totally see Vee and Ian together.
Four lovely stars for this book
Somehow below average. This confused teen is going from one trouble to another, and I don't understand how could she be so oblivious to the fact that she herself provided personal data to a giant online game. She always seems surprised by the fact that the ~Nerve~ site copies a lot of her data from her ~ThisIsMe~ page, acting like a 4yo who just discovered internet and is always mesmerised. More than half of her problems are caused by the fact that she's weak and cares too much of how other people perceive her. Cliche teen dramas occur here - her best friend hits on the guy she secretly admires, she gets angry for this, even though she did not mention anything to that best friend about it, etc. In the final challenge of the nerve game, she clearly appears as the weakest participant. It became a hateable character in the first third of the book, for me. Easy to manipulate, weak, cares too much of other people's opinion, her worries are futile for an adult. Hard to relate, I guess it would be easier for a teen.
PARENTAL WARNING COMING. I know I'm probably being a curmudgeon, but I wish parents would let their children read more, and then talk about what they are reading. I fell for the Hunger Games/Real Life RPG genre, and it is an entertaining read. BUT, there is some material that parents would want to know about. Don't ban a book, read it and talk about it.