" Epic " by Conor Kostick

Truly an "epic" story, the book has some awesome stuff indeed. Imagiane yourself in a world where your life is centered on  game called Epic. Even adults play it. Now imagine that the ONLY way to make it big was to defeat the best players in the game. Erik lives that life,sounds very enticing with all the fantasy games out there. But only problem is that almost everything is decided on the game. Economy for one thing, oh did I tell you that if you got into a fight you could be sent to life in jail in REAL LIFE?. His father was one of those people sent  to jail because of a rage. Choose your squabbles wisely if you lived there that's for sure. Erik's goal is one day to defeat Central Locations,aka the best clan of players, and free his dad and many other innocent prisoners.. If he wins , by any chance, he will move on to be the best and join the prestigious league. Along the way he finds that with a little help from his friends ( God that is overused) he defeats a DRAGON. Yea that's right it's one of the hardest damn NPC'S to kill in the game. He accumulates riches and gains interest from the infamous Central Locations. Erik states a challenge and the fight begins.

Tale of the victory spreads far and wide and local districts have theier hopes raise and pretty soon everyone wants to challenge CA. Getting nervous of the new demands, CA decides to secretly sabotage Erik and his friends sea voyage which they undertake for the promise of hidden treasures. Tratious behavior ensues. Im not going to tell you the end of the book, but one clue is an EPIC battle takes place which will change the fate of everyone in the game,including people in real life......

Exotix rating 4/5