She swears, smokes and is sexual rather than sentimental. As he falls deeper in love, he tries to reconcile his feelings for her with his friendship with fellow metal-heads like Jelly, a girl who seems to be Svetlana’s opposite. Lesh is immediately smitten with this quirky, wholesome girl. Meanwhile, Lesh and real-life Svetlana bond in the school cafeteria when he drives away an unwanted suitor. Though she has no useful game skills, her “bouncy rack and great legs” quickly earn her friends among the other players. Starting as a crude, violent orc, he is bored until he begins again as “Svvetlana,” a character he creates to resemble the real-life Svetlana - albeit taller and bustier. Grounded for coming home drunk that night, Lesh joins an online role-playing game to pass the time. Svetlana, because she is furious with Lesh for causing her sketchbook to fall into a puddle Lesh, because Svetlana looks “like an angel.

Lesh Tungsten, a metal-head with a heart of gold, steps in front of a bicycle ridden by Svetlana Allegheny, an artsy-craftsy dungeon master given to talking to herself in French, and the encounter leaves a deep impression on them both. A story of the roles we all play-at school, at home, with our friends, and without our friends-and the one person who might show us what lies underneath it all.Steve Brezenoff’s third young adult novel, “Guy in Real Life,” begins when two teenagers literally collide one night in St. A story of those moments when we act like people we aren't in order to figure out who we are. This is a story of two people who do not belong in each other's lives, who find each other at a time when they desperately need someone who doesn't belong in their lives. They should pick themselves up, continue on their way, and never talk to each other again. It is Labor Day weekend in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and boy and girl collide on a dark street at two thirty in the morning: Lesh, who wears black, listens to metal, and plays MMOs Svetlana, who embroiders her skirts, listens to Björk and Berlioz, and dungeon masters her own RPG.

From the acclaimed author of Brooklyn, Burning comes Guy in Real Life, an achingly real and profoundly moving love story in the vein of Rainbow Rowell and John Green, about two Minnesota teens whose lives become intertwined through school, role-playing games, and a chance two-a.m.

Guy in real life by steve brezenoff