Category: Books
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Cytonic: An Adventure Through Nowhere
Get it? Cause it takes place in the Nowhere? I’m clever, applaud me. As the third entry in the Skyward series (not counting the novellas), Cytonic is a rock-solid follow-up to the previous books. I don’t think it’s better than Starsight, the second book, but I would say that this is the most fun entry…
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Mat Cawthon: The Book VS The Show
*The following will contain spoilers for the first season of The Wheel of Time, as well as the first book in the series, ‘The Eye of the World’, with some minor spoilers for the second book, ‘The Great Hunt’. It will not cover anything beyond those. Newcomers, read with caution.* One thing I will praise…
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Re:Dawn: Stand Together or Fall Alone
I’m tempted to give this book a glowing review simply because it has a really clever and funny Lord of the Rings reference snuck in there. But I like to think I’m better than that. If only by a little. Taking place right after Sunreach and before Cytonic, Re:Dawn stars Alanik, the alien Spensa disguised…
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Sunreach: Of Slugs and Space Travel
It has been a hot minute since we talked about Brandon Sanderson’s Skyward series. Now we’ve got not one, but three books to talk about. Two of ’em are novellas, yes, but books are books. And there’s a fourth one on the way! Kicking off right in the climax of Starsight, we join our leading…
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Why I Love Bilbo Baggins
Close your eyes for fifteen seconds and picture a fantasy protagonist. It can be a specific one from a specific book, or it can be a nameless representation of the genre. Just picture the guy you imagine as a fantasy hero. Chances are that you imagined some kind of heroic looking knight. Or perhaps a…
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