Anxious but brilliant, Hailey Ramirez is languishing in community college, desperate to make a grand scientific discovery. Until she composes a tweet about her favorite childhood game, NoughtiePets. (Or, Schrodinger's NoughtiePets. She tweets: "If I haven't fed them in ten years, are they alive or dead?") All she remembers about the game is that she had four pets that looked like aliens, and the Egyptian God Anubis was an NPC... Her tweet goes viral... Anubis is brought back to power, appearing suddenly in Hailey's house... To express his gratitude, Anubis has Animated Hailey's digital-pets in startling, anatomically-inaccurate realism. Plus pets for the "Love of Her Life" and her "Best Friend Forever" - two strangers that she played NoughtiePets with but doesn't actually know. Now it's Coachella weekend and twelve magical animals are loose in the world. Anubis is desperate for internet fame, to strengthen his powers, but Hailey can't risk any of the pets being photographed - so they have to find them before the festival starts... HALIEN is "Ready Player One for 90s girls" or "Fantastic Beasts if the Beasts were Neopets" with a lesbian love story.
30 parts