Horror Heights by Bec Hill

'Don't forget to focus on what is right in front of you'.

Ryan is obsessed with livestreaming everything. He wants to get as many followers as his idle Grimmf. Ryan becomes so obsessed with his online world and building his number of followers that he overlooks his best friend, Ishaan.

As Ryan’s obsession grows Ishaan tries to remind him that the friends he has in real life who are there to help and support him when he needs it are more important than the number of anonymous online followers who would drop him the second his content is not of interest anymore. Ryan is not listening to his friend and says some mean things to him. He then finds himself drawn more and more into the online world until one day it really happens.

Ryan finds himself in Grimmf’s studio; he believes that his sister has drugged him and is playing a prank on him. As he slowly realizes it is not a prank, Ryan starts to worry about how he is going to get back home. Will his best friend talk to him and help him or has he gone too far? He finds that he is unable to say or type his own name from the online platform. Ryan is finally able to enlist the help of his best friend and sister to get him home and to help all of the others who have been trapped in Grimmf’s online world to also get home.

A well set out easy to read book, I would recommend it to anyone obsessed with gaming.

Themes: Websites, Internet, Social media.

Karen Colliver