Midnight Fight Express is one of those games that you will find yourself going back to constantly. Released in August of last year, it's a button-mashing beat-em up but with a lot more finesse to it. The story follows a former member of the criminal underworld who is lured back into the mix by a …
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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: 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: 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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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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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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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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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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Liminal Ramblings 