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It is no surprise that the book is awesome. I think I actually enjoyed it even more than the first one; if that is possible. The characters are rich and developed ohhh yeah Ash is VERY developed and the mystery is clever and will keep you gues I am pretty sure Christa popped inside my brain a sec and dug around proclaiming, 'Ah ha' and then Ash was born in her novel.
The characters are rich and developed ohhh yeah Ash is VERY developed and the mystery is clever and will keep you guessing all the way up to the end. I was constantly proclaiming out loud to myself, numerous times Ohh so and so did it! Only to find they had an alibi or some other mumbo jumbo which 'proved' they were potentially 'innocent'. The introduction of the new characters like Ash: If you enjoyed the first book in the Lexy Cooper series, you should definitely read this.
And if you want to find out more about Ash and his bulging… just read the book! A very addictive sequel to Schooled, with Lexy getting into, and out of, another incident revolving around murder and mystery. One thing that amazed me about this book as it did with the first one , was how the author juggled many threads of information to make believable characters and interactions. Lexy can be a very naughty girl and her love life takes an inter A very addictive sequel to Schooled, with Lexy getting into, and out of, another incident revolving around murder and mystery.
Lexy can be a very naughty girl and her love life takes an interesting turn in this book. She manages well enough to juggle her love life, work, and information on this new murder, though some repercussions from the first book come to light. In short, a strong female lead with equal parts geeky and sexy, embroiled through no fault of her own in another murder mystery. By all rights I should be mad at Christa Charter. Her books make me neglect my family, friends and all of humanity. At least until I finish the book. Pwned is an excellent book and much like after I had finished Schooled, the first book in the Lexy Cooper Mystery series, I was ready to start reading the third immediately afterward, but alas I will have to wait.
Christa has a natural gift for imagery, some of the weirdest details you wouldn't think about, she does - and the reader benefits from it By all rights I should be mad at Christa Charter. Christa has a natural gift for imagery, some of the weirdest details you wouldn't think about, she does - and the reader benefits from it.
The characters she has created are diverse, individual and very entertaining. As long as Christa is writing, I will continue reading. Only a few months after helping her detective uncle catch a multiple murderer, community manager turned video game tv show hostess Lexy Cooper walks in to another slain co-worker. Unfortunately for her, the list of suspects goes beyond the workplace and in to a world that is more dangerous than walking around in Minecraft with just a stick. To add to the difficultly level, her now ex boyfriend is one of the suspects as well as the mysterious pro-snowboarder that she pairs up with.
With the level Only a few months after helping her detective uncle catch a multiple murderer, community manager turned video game tv show hostess Lexy Cooper walks in to another slain co-worker. With the level set this high, her uncle might not be able to protect her as he has a trickery mini-game to play with a FBI former lover who might not have Lexy's safety as a goal. I am so glad that I got to be an early reader on this one. This book did not disappoint. Lexy becomes even more rich as a character in this book and I am almost ashamed to admit that Charter made me tear up not once, but twice with the book.
The richness and complexity of the relationships demonstrates how much Lexy as a character and Charter as an author have grown. I do have 2 requests for the author: Christa has done it again.
Great book from start to finish. I thought I had this booked figured out but every time that I did I was always wrong. She keeps you guessing and brings in some wonderful new characters along with the great cast that was there from book 1. I can't wait until the next one come out. Great job and definitely if you haven't read the first one do that and get to reading this one you won't be disappointed. Apr 08, Jaq Greenspon rated it really liked it Shelves: Once again, Lexy is dragged into a mystery set amidst the high-tech world of video game systems.
Ever the dutiful "friend," Lexy heads over only to discover the guy dead on the kitchen floor, a single stab wound to the chest.
Coming as this does on the heels of her last adventure a mere few month in book time , Lexy promptly calls her "Uncle" Mike, a police detective, reports the crime and then passes out, a victim of PTSD. Then, over the course of the relatively short novel, the murder investigation gets hampered by complications and leads down paths involving drug dealers, strippers, an old flame of Mike's who now works for the FBI and a firearms instructor who moonlights as a championship extreme sports star or maybe it's the other way around.
There are enough red herrings to make a Lithuanian meal while suspects come and go faster than pixels on a dual core processor I don't know what the means, either. Needless to say, it all gets solved and Lexy herself has a major hand in the action, overcoming her murder related stress as well as her devotion to Nate well, almost. She also gets a new boyfriend and a new hand weapon and a throng of new followers for her in-system show, Xenonline.
It's a quick, fun read and I'll certainly get the next book in the series, next time it's on sale, but a lot of the same problems I found with the original book are still present here. Charter still writes her characters as inhabiting the world she lives in at the time she's writing them and so she's got pop culture references which make the book feel dated instead of timeless. I'm not sure what the answer is, but I think she might be better served by creating fictional figures who fulfill the roles she wants her pop culture figures to fill so instead of having a concrete person we might or might not know, we'll create our own thinly veiled pastiche of whoever is current at the time of reading.
This would create a relevancy which comes as a collaboration with the reader instead of actively trying to contradict their current reality. And neither does she. Her looks are given more credibility than anything else she might have to offer. Even the one co-worker who asks her to edit a piece of writing, really only does it as a pretense to sexually harass her. Which brings up another issue - sexual harassment in this book is almost at the point of absurdity.
When the HR Director is guilty of massive and obvious harassment I tend to lose focus and he loses credibility as a character. It just strikes me as someplace where if something was going to be said about the nature of sexist situations in the gaming industry, this was the place.
Instead, it passes with the barest of notices except as a potential clue towards discovering our killer. At the end of the day, I keep wanting Lexy and her cohorts to be more aware of their situation and at least trying to understand and combat it. But beneath the sugar coated smiles, heart stopping cleavage, and the filthiest mouth in the gaming industry, Lexy is a very different woman.
Suffering from panic attacks as a result of her run in with Andy Kemp, and brokenhearted over the loss of Nate, young Miss Cooper is barely holding it together. Once again finding herself in the middle of a murder investigation, where the list of suspects seems endless, Lexy starts to do a little digging of her own.
But is she ready for what she will uncover? While not a typical murder mystery, Pwned takes a somewhat fresh approach to the genre. Rather than having an amalgamation of various detective type characters in a sexy new wrapping, the author instead places the reader in the shoes of someone who could quite easily end up being the next victim.
Featuring an expanded cast of characters over its predecessor, Pwned presents a number of different perspectives as events unfold.
Instead, each character feels much more well rounded and whole, almost real in a way. Of course there will be characters that you love, characters you hate, and characters that will make you want to punch through your Kindle in utter rage Agent 54 aka Major Numbnuts, for example , and each one is developed just that little bit more in this installment. Painfully so in fact. It could be down to the fantastic writing that kept me gripped to my Kindle from the moment I started, but I felt that Pwned ended far too quickly for me.
I enjoyed the first Lexy Cooper book, Schooled, so much that I was camping Amazon as of midnight on release day waiting for Pwned to be released. I plowed through the book over the following weekend, and was left wanting more - again. This series can't respawn quickly enough.
What I said when I reviewed Schooled Lexy Cooper Videogame Mystery was "If you're a woman and you've ever worked in the gaming or technology industry, you'll recognize at least some part of yourself in this book. It's bigger than that, now, however, and when I recommended the book to other Goodreads users I mentioned that I thought anyone who has ever even worked peripherally in The Industry will enjoy these books. The truth in this fiction feels so real because I'm certain that names have been changed to protect the not-so-innocent, especially as large gaming events are concerned.
I like the standard good-old-fashioned mystery layout and the nods to standard scare tropes with modern and high-tech characters and situations. The "softer side of Lexy Cooper" as mentioned by another commenter was a good call. There is a deeper look at her humanity this time; Lexy struggles with the duality of a public face to a private life, the trauma of choosing between loved ones, and navigating sharply changing but not entirely-obvious undercurrents between main characters.
Lots of man gibs are scattered again in this book, as by now we've come to expect. This is the third book I've read by Christa Charter and the third one I've really loved. So, the Dummies guides are a series of works.
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