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Bientôt, Elusion va changer le monde et la vie tels qu’on les connaît.

Une nouvelle technologie appelée Elusion est en train de balayer le pays. Une application, une visière et un bracelet vous transporteront virtuellement dans une destination exotique, à la poursuite de l’aventure, sans toutes les complications ou conséquences liées à la vie réelle.

Regan est une initiée à l’Elusion. Du moins elle l’a été. Son père a inventé le programme, et son meilleur ami, Patrick, héritier du géant technologique Orexis, est sur le point de le développer à l’échelle mondiale. Mais depuis la mort inattendue de son père, Regan ne peut plus supporter l’Escape (l’échappée), surtout quand se réveiller veut dire retourner violemment à la triste réalité.

Pourtant, quand il y a des rumeurs de soucis avec Elusion (accusée d’être addictive et dangereuse), Regan est déterminée a la défendre. Mais les critiques envers Elusion viennent de sources surprenantes, même de Josh, le beau sceptique avec ses enjeux personnels. Alors que Regan enquête sur les réclamations, elle découvre une dérangeante toile de secrets. Elle va bientôt devoir choisir entre amour et loyauté… Une decision qui affectera la vie de millions de personnes.

Suspens, frissons et romance rythment ce roman presque futuriste qui aborde le sujet de la nature séductive d’un monde virtuel parfait, et à quoi est prête une fille pour découvrir la vérité qui se cache derrière des illusions.

(traduction personnelle imparfaite mais compréhensible je l'espère)

All Megan Fletcher had wanted was to be like her sister Lucy: a beautiful, thin girl whom everyone at the Chesapeake School for Performing Arts worshipped and adored. While Lucy was a star actress with lots of fans, Megan had always been hiding behind the set designs that she and her best friend Simon had created, hoping that no one would notice her.

And then one day, life as Megan knew it had changed forever. Megan was in an accident that disfigured her face and plastic surgeons had to restructure it very carefully. Only no one would have thought that when the bandages came off, Megan would be even more beautiful than Lucy . . .

Seventeen-year-old Steffie Rogers is not happy. Her mother, Barbie, has been suffering from love lunacy since before Steffie was even born. What is love lunacy? It's what happens to her mom when she has affairs with married men. The first stage is the Secret Smile and the last stage occurs when the relationship falls apart: Barbie picks another town in Maryland and they move, which they've done 14 times.

Now Steffie lives on Jones Island and is working as a maid at a country club over the summer (long story). She's in love with handsome lifeguard Keith McKnight, but he already has a girlfriend. When Keith offers to teach Steffie how to swim, she finds herself in his arms and fighting the symptoms of love lunacy. But with the help of her feisty, older friend Alice, she's determined not to drown in her mother's problems.

Still, Steffie is about to discover that swimming against the current isn't so easy.

In this sequel to Elusion, three teens fight a virtual reality program that threatens to destroy their minds. Dangerous secrets and lies add up to a thrilling futuristic fantasy with an Inception-inspired twist.

Elusion was hailed as an exciting leap in technology—until users began to disappear amid rumors of addiction. Regan’s search for the truth led her and her new love interest, Josh, to Etherworld. Etherworld is a dimension hidden deep beyond Elusion's firewall, where players can hide, and ultimately fight back. Regan's father and others are here working to destroy Etherworld, but the longer they stay the less likely they'll be able to return to the real world alive.

Escape means attacking Elusion from within the program. It's dangerous and it’s a puzzle. And even if they manage it, how will they be able to stop Orexis from distributing Elusion to the masses when the people who run it are corrupt?