Becca & The Books's Reviews > Nerve

I picked this one up because I was interested in the movie, and a book about an online game of dares with crazy high stakes and spectacular prizes sounded like a fun time, I can't lie.

Sadly, Nerve disappointed me. Literally the only thing I expected from it was that it would be exciting, with tension building as the dares progressed. But the dares in here... are not high stakes? A couple of them would be mildly embarrassing most were just sleazy and the final one was just a group of people screaming for 40 pages.
I still can't figure out why so many of these dares surrounded nudity or sex. One I could overlook and be like "fair enough" but 3 of the 5 dares in this book are sleazy as hell, especially when we consider that the main character is 17 and is being put in positions where she can be sexualised by men of undisclosed ages. All of which would be totally fine if the book was trying to make a point about sexualising underage girls but it's literally just for entertainment purposes and to make the dares "high stakes" which once again... they were not. The prizes weren't all that great either.

I'll try the movie.