Helpful Score: 3
After snapping back at a teacher who picks on her for being different (the latest in a long string of defiant acts), gothic teen Jade is hooked up to a virtual reality machine so that she can appreciate the way her life already is. To her horror, she is no longer a minority - a goth amongst preppy people. Instead she is in the majority - in her alternate universe, everyone is a goth and she is their popular queen. Even the police wear eyeliner, and preppy kids are thought to be deviant. Only Mercedes, her nemesis, who got in a fight at school and was also hooked up to the machine seems aware of what's going on. All Jade's old friends hate her and are preppy, not goth. Meanwhile, new kid Clarik, not part of either goths or preps, seems interested in Jade, but this is a virtual reality world. A decent story with a moral that raises some interesting questions about identity and individuality and about making judgements about others. However, I did think that this complicated punishment didn't seem to fit the crime, and some suspension of disbelief is required.
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