Looking for Group cover art

Looking for Group

 Preview

Get 30 days of Standard free

$8.99/mo after trial ends. Cancel anytime
Try for $0.00
More purchase options

Looking for Group

By: Alexis Hall
Narrated by: Will Watt, Sam Newton, Morag Sims, Rich Keeble, Matt Godfrey, Chris Devon
Try for $0.00

Auto-renews at $8.99/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for $21.73

Buy Now for $21.73

Summary

 From the USA Today bestselling author of BOYFRIEND MATERIAL and HUSBAND MATERIAL comes a charming New Adult LGBTQIA+ romance perfect for fans of Heartstopper.
Drew’s always prided himself on being the “right” kind of nerd. He plays sports, has a solid group of friends, and never had any problem talking to girls. Sure, he spends time playing Heroes of Legend, the biggest MMORPG on the planet, but it’s just a fun hobby, not his identity. Falling for someone in a video game? Not his style.
Until it is.
Enter Kit: witty, kind, razor-sharp, and a healer who’s saved Drew’s virtual skin more times than he can count. She’s also, turns out, a boy in real life. The realization knocks Drew off-balance, but it doesn’t take long for him to figure out the simple truth—he likes Kit, no matter Kit’s gender.
The real challenge? Kit’s reality is leagues apart from Drew’s. Being online is his life, and while he’s willing to come out of his shell an inch at a time, there’s such a wide gulf between them that Drew’s left wondering: can love truly bridge the distance…or are they fated to remain in separate worlds forever? Contemporary Romance Heartfelt Witty Video Game
All stars
Most relevant
I'm a former MMORPG player, and I've played most of the board games Drew and his friends play, so that was kind of fun for me to hear about in this book. I appreciate that the author included a glossary for readers unfamiliar with these games, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was a clear difference in readers' experiences depending on whether they come "from this world" or not.

Like all Alexis Hall books, none of the characters are perfect, which is one of the reasons why I like the author so much. Drew and Kit feel like real people rather than dressed up archetypes, and I think Hall always does this well. The story is clear, sweet, engaging, and does what it sets out to do. It's sweet, funny, sometimes sad, always human.

As far as the audiobook goes, going for a full cast recording was a must - the sections of the book occurring in raid chat would have been annoying to try and make sense of if a single narrator was trying to voice multiple characters, all of whom have online usernames but also use their real names when chatting over 'mumble' (read as: discord or teamspeak). Light and inoffensive background music is used to clearly separate the scenes occurring in-game from the ones occurring in the real world. The music itself is has a fantasy game flavour to it but is by no means some grand score getting in the way of the narrative, it's just there to support the game scenes.

In fact I found the use of music really well done, it reminded me a little of how audiobooks were produced back in the 90s closer to a radio play style.

I think the book also acts as a poignant but also gentle example of the freedom MMORPGs give you to not necessarily anonymise yourself but to exist in another space free of perception and expectation, and express aspects of one's personality that can be criticised in certain real world spaces or social situations, like empathy, softness, or an appreciation for art.

This one will stick with me.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Absolutely love the MMORPG description in this book. I know it may not make sense to those who don't play video games but this really really brings back a lot of fond memories for me. Thanks for this unique book. Everything else is perfect, "but" since this is a classic Alexis Hall book, the sharp ending without any lovey-dovey afterwords is very much expected. I do hope there will be more in the future.

Excellent performance as Always

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The story and voice acting was genuinely remarkable. The ending however rang quite dull to me :(

Great book, mediocre ending

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I just couldn’t get through this it was so bad. I actually do play games so it wasn’t that I didn’t get it, but in the end it was just incredibly dull and annoying. Very strange premise and the back ground music was tiresome after 5 minutes.

Painful to listen

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.