Hey there! Happy new year! I’ve been quite busy over the past month or so as I’ve started a new job and the new schedule has taken some time to get used to. It’s gotten a bit better over the last week so this should be the start of a more regular weekly round-up newsletter. …
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Book Review: Lightbringer – Sara Richards
Note: I'll be trying out a new format of sorts. Feedback on whether to stick with this or not would be much appreciated. Thank you! Lightbringer is the first novel in Sara Richards' new superhero fantasy series. The story is set in the city of Ancora where super powered individuals called the Knights maintain the …
Series Review: Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy – Timothy Zahn
The Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn is widely considered the series that launched the entire Star Wars expanded universe of novels, and with good reason. The events of this trilogy begin to take place about 5 years after events of Return of the Jedi, and we get to meet Grand Admiral Thrawn. I went into …
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Book Review: The Way of Shadows (Night Angel #1) – Brent Weeks
The Way of Shadows is the first book in Brent Weeks' Night Angel Series. We follow premier assassin Durzo Blint as he finds himself taking on an apprentice in the form of a desperate boy from the slums. Desperation, and a way to save his fellow guild rats, makes Azoth a unique prospect for Durzo, …
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Book Review: Moon Over Soho – Ben Aaronovitch
The second entry in the Peter Grant series by Ben Aaronovitch sees Peter Grant and co recovering from the aftermath of the incidents in the first book. His friend Leslie is still recovering and struggling to adjust to having her face fall off (literally). Peter while trying to maintain some form of normalcy for his …
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Book Review: Before the Coffee Gets Cold – Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Before the coffee gets cold is a story about a cafe where, urban legend says, you can travel back in time. But there is a catch. In fact, there are several conditions that need to be followed for this time travel to work. The gist of it is that a person can travel through time …
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Series Review: The Inheritance Games – Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes is a trilogy that at first glance gave me a who-dunnit vibe. I couldn't be more wrong. These books are teen romance with a dash of mystery to them. Would have preferred it the other way around but oh well. Below I've reviewed each book after reading them …
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Book Review: Roots and Steel – Casey White
This is the first entry into Casey White's CoreVerse series of books. As its tagline says this book is essentially a monster-hunting LitRPG. There's magic, there are monsters, there are people called hunters who, well, hunt said monsters, and there's a progression system that one usually sees in RPG games. The story follows Trellin, a …
Book Review: The Appeal – Janice Hallett
I picked up this book from Waterstones in Brussels because like so many others the cover caught my attention. The blurb further intrigued me with how the reader appears to have a part in the mystery solving. This is the first book by Janice Hallett and is in the form of an epistolary novel. This …
Book Review: Dark Matter Empire – Alex Zadeh
Dark Matter Empire by Alex Zadeh is a sci-if space opera-esque novel that starts with an alien abduction and ends with the fate of our world in the balance. The novel follows Ryan Stathis, an aeronautical engineer who is one night abducted by an alien spacecraft and transported through a wormhole to somewhere in the …
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Game Review: TOEM
TOEM is a game which revolves around photography. You play as a small figure roaming across scandinavian inspired landscapes capturing moments using your camera. The ultimate goal is to experience the phenomenon known as TOEM and bring back a picture of the same. There are several objectives that need to be completed along the way, …
Book Review: Rivers of London – Ben Aaronovitch
Rivers of London is the first book in the Peter Grant / Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch. It’s an urban fantasy set in and around, you guessed it, London. It follows Peter Grant, one of the local constabulary who discovers that he has some form of magical ability when he finds himself one …
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Game Review: Hot Wheels Unleashed
Racing games have been something I hadn't pick up in a couple of years. Apart from Mario Kart 8 the last racing game I remember playing was Need for Speed: Most Wanted which came out in 2005 so it's been a good while. Which was why when I heard about the release of the new …
Book Review: Star Wars: Heir to the Empire – Timothy Zahn
I first discovered this book in college when "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" show was all the rage but like so many others it languished on my TBR pile for quite a while. I don't know what prompted me to pick up this book recently but I'm so glad I did. Heir to the Empire …
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Doodle: Gorr, the Godbutcher
The movie Thor: Love and Thunder introduced me to Gorr and eventually Jason Aaron's remarkable run on the Thor comics. I have a habit of mostly doodling comic book characters, so picking a suitable character from the comic I was reading at the time seemed like an obvious choice. I decided to go with Gorr …
Game Review: Lego Star Wars – The Skywalker Saga
When I heard that there would be Lego Star Wars game that had all 9 movies as part of the gameplay I was a little excited. The last lego game I played was Lego DC Super-Villains, and I don’t think I got past the starting 15 min or so. This made me apprehensive in picking …
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Series Review: Discworld – The Witches series
The discworld series spans 41 books and around 4 books in the science of discworld series. While the series can be read in any order, there are several books that fall into certain broad categories / series. These are generally the: Rincewind seriesWitches seriesDEATH SeriesAnkh-Morpork City Watch seriesTiffany Aching seriesIndustrial Revolution seriessome standalone books Here …
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Book Review: Thor – The Saga of Gorr the God Butcher – Jason Aaron
The new Thor movie “Thor: Love and Thunder” introduced the character of Gorr to the MCU. While this portrayal by Christian Bale was different from the Gorr in the comics, this didn’t come as much of a surprise since the MCU is a different timeline as compared to the comic variant. That being said when …
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Series Review: The Gray Man Series(#2-11) – Mark Greaney
I recently read the first book in the Gray Man series by Mark Greaney after I saw the trailer for the upcoming netflix movie of the same name. You can find the review for the first book here. This will be a brief review for the rest of the series (a total of 11 books …
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Series Review: Fred, the Vampire Accountant – Drew Hayes
I stumbled upon Drew Hayes when I was looking for a superhero fix and had heard about his series superpowereds. While checking on goodreads I stumbled upon this other series called ‘Fred the vampire accountant’ series. I have to say that did make me chuckle a bit and the first book’s title, ‘The Utterly Uninteresting …
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