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Riley absolutely adores musical theater. She loves it so much, in fact, that when she and her friend have tickets to attend a musical in the city and her friend’s car breaks down, Riley uses her mom’s car to take her friend last-minute so they won’t miss it. Problem is, she doesn’t have a license, and she didn’t ask permission to use the car.
So her parents agree that a serious consequence is in order. Riley is sentenced to work after school for eight weeks at her father’s gaming store. She’s barely even stepped foot in it in the five years her dad has run it, and she has never had an interest in board games or video games or Dungeons and Dragons, etc.
But here she is, stocking and working the register — and slowly getting to know more about this passion of her dad’s.
On her first day, Riley meets another employee, Nathan, who goes to her school. Nathan doesn’t just work there: he loves what he does and plays D&D and other games in the back room open every night for dedicated gamers.
Riley notices Nathan has a huge crush on a pretty girl who comes to play some nights, and when Riley’s ex-boyfriend comes into the store with his new girlfriend, she and Nathan come to an agreement. They will pretend around Sophia and Paul that they are dating. It should make Sophia more interested in Nathan, and Riley can save face with Paul about not having a new boyfriend yet.
That agreement leads to Riley even joining the D&D game, and as time goes on, she finds it’s actually fun. She can burst out into song and use her acting skills to role play.
Weirdly enough, Riley also finds as time goes on that she is getting feelings when Nathan pretends he likes her. But he must be a pretty good actor too.
Life is getting more complicated than she had anticipated, all because of this forced job at her dad’s store.
Dungeons and Drama is predictable but cute, and any reader who has any bit of gaming and/or drama nerd inside will have a good time with it. And you can safely hand it to a teen or tween because the content is very clean.
Rated: Mild. Honestly, it’s just about a None. Profanity includes one use of mild language and fewer than 10 instances of the name of Deity in vain. There are two or three instances of kissing, but nothing more.
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