I was thrown into a sterile white room with no windows, the closest thing to a jail cell I have ever seen. So let me center myself and take in my surroundings. How I arrived is a story too twisted to believe. My heart is splintered glass inside my chest. But here I stand, soaked in mud, blood stained across my diamond disco dress-and I’m not even sure where I am. Unless she can figure out the truth behind who’s sabotaging the challenge, the next person to disappear may be Luna herself. There’s so much on the line for Luna, not to mention she’s falling in love with the last guy she expected. The weight of her family on her shoulders. And Luna increasingly begins to wonder if all these strange happenings are connected with the Retro Challenge. Kids start disappearing, including Luna’s friends. It’s called the Retro Challenge, where contestants live without modern technology, wear vintage clothes, party as if the future weren’t already written, and fall in love as if they were living in a movie.Īt first, the challenge is fun. When the social media company Limbo-who are also implicated in the scandal-sweeps in with an offer that sounds like an opportunity to turn over a new leaf and receive a scholarship to the college of her dreams, she’s happy to jump on the new trend.

Things were never supposed to get this out of hand.Īfter a cyberbullying incident at her school goes viral, Luna Iglesias finds herself at the heart of a brewing controversy. What starts off as a lighthearted competition to live without modern technology for a year turns into a fight for survival in this unputdownable young adult thriller by New York Times bestselling author Jarrod Shusterman and debut author Sofía Lapuente.

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