Waiting on Wednesday #89

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event hosted at Breaking The Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Playing Tyler - T.L. Costa
Published : 2nd July 2013
I did a Cover Crazy for this on Monday but felt like I had to do a WoW post too because I am pretty excited about this book and even more excited now the lovely publishers, Strange Chemistry, are sending me a proof copy!
I really want to read more books where the main character is a male and this book achieves that. I love the sound of this book, with so much going on, so many different emotions and things for Tyler to try and control. I just hope I like Tyler's character as it could make it break the book for me!

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The Blurb :

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, that’s 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.