I immediately fell in love with this book from the moment I realised three things: It has the same concept of using virtual reality gaming as the anime, Sword Art Online, and I ironically started to binge watch the series the same week that I started Warcross. Emika is Chinese/American and Hideo is Japanese/British – we need more of this diversity! (And books set in Japan because UGH I LOVE JAPAN!) She is a bounty hunter and hacker who knows her way around Warcross because Hideo Tanaka inspired her to find the greatness in life after her father passed away. Emika Chen is the new female lead that everyone should aspire to be like. She is a badass teenager who can hack into Warcross like you would simply log in to Facebook, she goes on bounty hunts for extra cash (though her success rate isn't the best), and she sports rainbow coloured hair with creative tattoos and rides an electric skateboard around the streets of New York. The whole idea of the story is that Emika manages to spot a super rare power-up in the Warcross championship game and decides to try and grab it without anyone noticing so that she might be able to sell it and pay her landlord back the money she and her roommate, Keira, owe him. Instead of being super stealthy, she accidentally glitches herself into the game and soon after that ends up being hired by Hideo Tanaka himself to try and stop the hacker, Zero, from trying to ultimately take down the technology that is a world wide phenomenon. I have to say one thing before I continue: BUT SERIOUSLY PEOPLE CAN USE THE WARCROSS GLASSES (and later on the contacts) FOR EVERYDAY USE AND HAVE VIRTUAL DRAGONS AND TIGERS AS PETS! LIKE HONESTLY – WHAT I WOULD GIVE TO HAVE A VIRTUAL PET LIKE PINA FROM SWORD ART ONLINE!