--- product_id: 18514303 title: "The Game" price: "₹ 2117" currency: INR in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.in/products/18514303-the-game store_origin: IN region: India --- # The Game **Price:** ₹ 2117 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Game - **How much does it cost?** ₹ 2117 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.in](https://www.desertcart.in/products/18514303-the-game) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description desertcart.com: The Game: 9781442409392: Hughes, Monica: Books Review: Right up there with The Giver and Hunger Games - First titled Invitation to the Game this is the story of a futute world where jobs are scarce and new graduates band together to survive in a ghetto-like city. Invited to play a virtual reality game, the six friends become enmeshed in using their talents to win at the game. The game turns real and they all must work together to survive. Not as gory as Hunger Games, the theme stresses the value of building community. Not as esoteric as The Giver, the story has just enough ambiguity to keep you guessing. Review: Great Book! - Was Searching for this book for years! Was one of my favorites growing up that I read in school and for the life of me I couldn't ever remember the name or find it until now. Highly highly recommend this book! Its about middle school/teenage reading level but even as an adult I look forward to reading this story many times over. Thank you for the excellent quality with no marks, cover bends or broken spine as well as excellent shipping! Would shop from this buyer again. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #321,922 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #114 in Teen & Young Adult Fiction about Being a Teen (Books) #455 in Teen & Young Adult Survival Stories #7,474 in Children's Action & Adventure Books (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 35 Reviews | ## Images ![The Game - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51dCVLf3VHL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Right up there with The Giver and Hunger Games *by J***K on June 4, 2013* First titled Invitation to the Game this is the story of a futute world where jobs are scarce and new graduates band together to survive in a ghetto-like city. Invited to play a virtual reality game, the six friends become enmeshed in using their talents to win at the game. The game turns real and they all must work together to survive. Not as gory as Hunger Games, the theme stresses the value of building community. Not as esoteric as The Giver, the story has just enough ambiguity to keep you guessing. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Book! *by B***S on November 17, 2015* Was Searching for this book for years! Was one of my favorites growing up that I read in school and for the life of me I couldn't ever remember the name or find it until now. Highly highly recommend this book! Its about middle school/teenage reading level but even as an adult I look forward to reading this story many times over. Thank you for the excellent quality with no marks, cover bends or broken spine as well as excellent shipping! Would shop from this buyer again. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Love this book! *by F***2 on April 6, 2026* I read this book as a teenager and it enthralled me so much that it stuck with me for years. I tried searching for it years later, only knowing the title but not the author, to no avail. Finally found it, nearly 3 decades after initially reading it as a teen! Reading it as an adult was a bit different; teen-me must have read it with rose-colored glasses on, as I now found the character development a little lacking, and was often left with questions I didn't think to wonder about as a kid...for instance, why are most of these kids just dropped off at government schools as 8-year-olds (I assume from clues in the book that's about the age they would have been), never to see their families again, where others (Rich and Benta) had family farms/businesses that they went back to after school ended, fathers/parents they loved enough to be devastated when they were eventually ripped away from their comfortable lives to join the others in their Game quest. That was another thing unexplained; why was Rich mistakenly left out in the first place? It seems these kids were carefully vetted for the Game during their 10 years in school, and it seems highly unlikely that they would miss a doctor in their midst; it was only when during the Game someone mentioned that they wished they had someone with medical training with them that Rich was suddenly basically air-mailed to their doorstep like the gift they never wanted. With things like 'mind police' all over the place, this seems like a huge oversight! It also struck me that we know next to nothing about the main character. No visual description even, much less any personality traits. Where did she come from, and why doesn't she remember her family, or at least mention them? An 8-year-old should have well-formed memories of their life before that. She even questions her 'purpose' in the Game when everyone else has a skill to contribute...a question that is never really answered in the book. Did she not study something specific in school? Why was she selected in the first place if she had nothing to offer, when Benta was passed over initially, despite having farming knowledge? I didn't question these things as a teenager, but now they rattle around in my brain a bit. The visual description of the dystopian city was better; some of the things that stuck with me long after reading this book the first time was the desolation of a seemingly empty city during the day, but with the unsettling feeling that it has 'eyes' as the kids pass through, looking up at broken or dirty windows, descriptions of a seedy opium den, or the visually vibrant but derelict night-life as the city comes alive after dark in full flamboyant costume and raucous behavior and crime. I'd probably give this book 3 stars if I were reading it for the first time today, but given that it is indeed young-adult fiction, it is still a good sci-fi read. I've always been a fan of dystopian fiction, and this one gave me some food for thought over the years. It was fun to revisit it for nostalgia's sake! --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.in/products/18514303-the-game](https://www.desertcart.in/products/18514303-the-game) --- *Product available on Desertcart India* *Store origin: IN* *Last updated: 2026-05-05*