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Tisannah is used to being the underdog. After signing her life to the Order to help save the slaves in Threll, she was double crossed by the very people she helped. In a desperate power grab, Nura ends up on top, Max ends up in a magical prison, and Tisannah ends up back in Threll, continuing to lead the rebellion while trying to save Max.
Read MoreIn the World of Warcraft Alleria and Turalyon are heroes of epic proportions. They have been fighting for a millennia against the Burning Legion, and now they’ve returned to find their son, Arator, is fighting the same cause. Despite sharing blood, this small family doesn’t really know how to relate. Now they’re working together to investigate rumors that demonic activity is starting up in an
Read MoreApparently, I need to die? Not really, but the concept of finding a main character of a novel with the same name as you becomes a lot harder when you have a less common name like I do. In comes Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die by author Greer Stothers. The name alone was enough to intrigue me into checking it out. Reading through this
Read MoreIn Blood of the Old Kings by Sung-Il Kim, Arland struck a decisive blow against the Empire. But that doesn’t mean that they’re safe in the next installment of the Bleeding Empire Trilogy, titled Blood for the Undying Throne. The last time a territory tried to break away from the Empire, the Empire unleashed the Star of Mersia and wiped the rebels off the map. To
Read MoreStar Wars Outlaws was released in mid-2024 as the first true open-world Star Wars game. It thrust players into the underworld of the galaxy, allowing them to work for syndicates during the time of the Empire as Kay Vess, a new scoundrel on the scene. Outlaws received some rather unfair criticism before its release, which led to middling sales. Unfortunate issues and bugs at launch
Read MoreTisaanah has just won a major victory in Daughter of No Worlds (previously reviewed). With Reshaye’s power, she destroyed the corrupt leaders of Threll and freed the slaves. But there’s no time to revel in her victory in the second book in Carissa Broadbent’s The War of Lost Hearts series. In Children of Fallen Gods, Tisaanah is immediately thrown into a new war with reprecussions that
Read MoreTisaanah has been a slave for most of her life, but she has no intention of staying one. She’s worked hard and saved every coin that’s ever come her way. Finally, she has the 1,000 gold pieces that her owner named as her freedom price eight years ago. She intends to buy her freedom, travel to the Order, train until she is a powerful magic
Read MoreListen, we all have to have hobbies. When I’m not holed up in my dungeon writing like my life depends on it, I enjoy entering into epic quests with my friends in one of our many TTRG games. I also love to color, and I have since I was a young child. Coloring has always been one of those activities that is not only enjoyable
Read MoreOver the past year, Aconyte has released a series within the Arkham Horror series, The Drowned City. The last two books have chronicled different events that seem unrelated but are all related to the reawakening of the Ancient One, an eldrich being so terrifying that people hesitate to even say its true name. Professor Harvey Walters has been running all around Arkham with his garbage
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