{Review} Playing Tyler @TLCosta1

When is a game not a game?

Tyler MacCandless can’t focus, even when he takes his medication. He can’t focus on school, on his future, on a book, on much of anything other than taking care of his older brother, Brandon, who’s in rehab for heroin abuse… again.

Tyler’s dad is dead and his mom has mentally checked out. The only person he can really count on is his Civilian Air Patrol Mentor, Rick. The one thing in life it seems he doesn’t suck at is playing video games and, well, thats probably not going to get him into college.

Just when it seems like his future is on a collision course with a life sentence at McDonald’s, Rick asks him to test a video game. If his score’s high enough, it could earn him a place in flight school and win him the future he was certain that he could never have. And when he falls in love with the game’s designer, the legendary gamer Ani, Tyler thinks his life might finally be turning around.

That is, until Brandon goes MIA from rehab and Tyler and Ani discover that the game is more than it seems. Now Tyler will have to figure out what’s really going on in time to save his brother… and prevent his own future from going down in flames.
About the Author

T. L. Costa is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and has a Masters of Teaching from Quinnipiac University who taught high school for five years before becoming a full-time mom and writer.

She has lived in Texas, New York, New Jersey and Spain. Currently, she lives in Connecticut with her husband and two children.

This one I really loved to begin with.  But then all this drama started and insta-love and stalking and people just not getting a clue and trusting the wrong person after they know that they are doing something bad!  And if you havent guessed from up top NO COMMAS! OMG for the love of all the english teachers we knew you had PLEASE USE COMMAS!!  This one is about 70% drama 10% stalker 15% insta-love and 5% just WTF!  I did finish it!  I hate not finishing books even if they are bad and just plan frustrating!  I was so happy to get this book as I loved the blurb!  But when you really start reading it you find out that what you thought you were reading is SO not what you are reading!  So this one is a solid 2 stars for me.  And as the last of the blurb stats the future of this book is going down in flames!  For those of you who want a story like this but better check out Insignia by S.J. Kincaid  

"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own."

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