Warcross
- 416
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Warcross” is a young adult cyberpunk adventure set at the Tokyo world championship of a virtual reality game. Emika Chen, a hunter hired by the game’s billionaire creator to look into a security breach, brings a spy plot into the spectacle. Some readers find most of the book merely decent and are then won over by an ending they did not foresee. It is the first half of a duology.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
Warcross is a young adult science fiction novel by Marie Lu, which was published on September 17, 2017 by G.P. Putnam's Sons. Warcross is the first book in the duology of the same name, set in a cyberpunk future, New Yorker 18-year-old Emika Chen works as a "hunter" who earns her living making arrests for minor crimes. She is handpicked by billionaire Hideo Tanaka, creator of the virtual reality combat game Warcross to go to the game's world championship in Tokyo to investigate a security breach.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.6 across 349 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 70% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Young adult average of 7.8. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 9 | 3% |
| Hardcover | 7.6 | 340 | 97% |
Frequently asked
What age is Warcross for?
Warcross sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 416 pages — shorter than 54% of the ranked books in Young adult.
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