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Kelsea Yu

Author of It's Only a Game

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Works by Kelsea Yu

It's Only a Game (2024) 41 copies, 1 review
Demon Song (2025) 38 copies
Bound Feet (My Dark Library) (2022) 14 copies
Ye Xian and the Celestial Feast (2025) 1 copy
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The Darkest Night (2024) — Contributor — 101 copies, 14 reviews
Dark Matter Presents Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology (2022) — Contributor — 57 copies, 2 reviews
Classic Monsters Unleashed (2022) — Contributor — 44 copies, 5 reviews
Mother Knows Best: Tales of Homemade Horror (A Women in Horror Anthology) (2024) — Contributor — 15 copies, 1 review
Death in the Mouth: Original Horror by People of Color (2022) — Contributor — 12 copies
Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic: An Anthology of Hysteria Fiction (2023) — Contributor — 9 copies, 2 reviews
ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction (2025) — Contributor — 3 copies

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Nationality
USA
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USA

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It's only a game by Kelsea Yu
Mild spoilers.

This was a great and fast-paced read until near the end. I found it kind of hard to keep it straight who the mom was and who the sister was. That the climax ended deus ex-machina style was disappointing. The start of the fire was unexplained, and Lia’s escape was unexplained unless I missed it.

I listened to the audio, which was good. I appreciated the inclusion of the spoken Manadarin; this would have had less of an impact had I read the text.
Feb 6, 2026

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Shirley Jackson Award
Young Adult Favorites Award
Teacher Favorites Award
California Department of Education Recommended Literature List

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Works
4
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Members
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Rating
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Reviews
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ISBNs
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