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Written and illustrated by Aaron Alexovich Navigate the neon-lit corridors of an online VR lair in this high-velocity, dangerous quest to locate the world's first digital girl, written and illustrated by Aaron Alexovich (Serenity Rose, TV's Invader Zim and Avatar: The Last Airbender)! Telly Kade is pretty much your typical 23rd century teen. She's got impossible hair, misfit friends, a big sloppy brother...and a pair of VR goggles that lets her live among the vampires - online, at least. She's also got a problem: a suicide note from her best friend, Kimmie66. But if Kimmie is really dead, why is she still all over the net? Is it a ghost, prank, or something much creepier? To find out, Telly will have to dig through every dark corner of the internet and uncover the truth behind the mysterious double life and death of the girl she thought she knew best..
Reviews (2)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 9 Up-Citizens of the 23rd century spend most of their time with virtual-reality goggles on, exploring their digital "lairs." Telly has received a suicide note from her friend Kimmie66, whom she's only met in their lair, Elysium. However, Kimmie is still seen "netside": Is she really dead? Telly uncovers the truth, and also learns to "stop to smell the unvirtualated roses" once in a while. This is an imaginative, relevant science-fiction story that should interest fans of books such as M. T. Anderson's Feed (Candlewick, 2002). The author plays with words effectively to create a whole new, futuristic world: at one point Telly's friend Nekokat refers to a Patrick Swayze "flattie," which is a "non-holographic movie." The artwork and layouts are inventive and should appeal to manga fans. Characters are drawn with spiky hair and large eyes, and the drawings often spill out of the panels, which are drawn with jagged, uneven edges. The black-and-white drawings are occasionally a little murky and details can be hard to make out, but this may just add to the dark appeal of this edgy, sophisticated graphic novel.-Lisa Goldstein, Brooklyn Public Library, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
Tapping Alexovich's Serenity Rose (2005), DC's Minx imprint produces another smart, engaging girl-centric graphic novel. Snarky, intelligent goth girl Telly lives in the twenty-third century, where teens spend most of their time in lairs, fully rendered virtual universes where inhabitants adopt avatars that stand in for their true selves. Trouble comes when Telly receives a real suicide note from her best friend, Kimmie66, and must find her before it's too late. The problem: Telly knows Kimmie66 only through her virtual surrogate. Turning on this clever device, the story is on a par with the best speculative fiction. Through a well-postulated and convincing world, it poses questions about how we live now, and the kind of human beings we are becoming. Alexovich's trademark Ameri-manga art, while highly energetic, makes a somewhat jarring fit for the tone and scope of the story, but Telly's voice, while slightly younger than the ideal reading audience, keeps the occasionally dense story popping right along.--Karp, Jesse Copyright 2008 Booklist
