ARC Review: Love Beyond The Veil by Emerie Spark
Thank you to Tales & Teacups and Emerie Spark for allowing me to read an ARC of this book. My thoughts: This novel is a love letter to online gaming and streaming. We have Lucy - a popular streamer who has been able to come out of her shell as a person due to streaming a video game called The Veil and Elgin - a creator and developer of The Veil whose studio was recently bought out by a bigger studio. They meet and begin to work together, slowing falling in love as they test The Veil's next expansion. Things get bumpy when The Veil's new studio threatens to pull the new expansion due to it not fitting the path they want to go down. I really liked the way that Lucy and Elgin supported each other. He helped her find her "spark" in the gaming community and she helped him to believe in himself and The Veil again. I also liked the way that the group found a way to stick to the man and get out from under the thumb of the new big studio. It took a majority of this novel...