Elemental

by Steven O'Connor

It's the year 2050. It's a city with ziprams that screech across the horizon and hyperboards that zoom through the air. Three teenagers - Zeb, Willis and Arizona - are drawn to a new kind of games console and a weird demo game supplied to them by a mysterious stranger named Grimble Dower. It's a game of superior graphics and challenges, and Zeb is soon unable to resist playing. But his growing addiction leads to danger as he becomes steadily drawn into Grimble Dower's dark world called Virtualitee.

296 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 25, 2011

About the author

I'm originally from Luton, England, and I now live in Melbourne, Australia - the city of cafes, restaurants and the world's largest tram network.

Reviews

[Gryphon · Rating 2 out of 5]

The setting was interesting. The plot hasn't half bad. The main issues that I had were the characters (I don't like Zeb, sorry) and the fact that apostrophes were used in place of quotation marks. (I read the ebook version so I don't know if this carries over to the paperbacks.) I honestly almost put it down when I saw the dialogue formatting, except I had two even worse options to pick from and I was bored and wanted answers. Answers to questions that really could have been answered better. There's not really much of an explanation about Grimble, for example, or what exactly Fast is. Which was incredibly disappointing.

[Lisa Reece-Lane · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is my son's favourite book!!