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Audiobook Review: ‘Light Bringer: A Red Rising Novel’ by Pierce Brown

As nerds continue to take over the world, it feels like there’s been a bigger shift in the landscape of media on fantasy, science fiction, and comic books. Not that you’ll hear me complaining. With so much focus on nerd culture, the market has become inundated with many new series, films, and books to catch the attention of consumers. To stand

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Book Review: ‘Cursebreakers’ by Madeleine Nakamura

Adrien Desfourneaux is currently a professor of magic but he used to be a physician. Instead of teaching about magic, he used it to heal people. Until the day he went too far and was almost branded a witch. The victims of that tragedy are still lying comatose in the Chirurgeonate (hospital) years later. But now something is happening. An unexplained

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Book Review: ‘Fourth Wing’ by Rebecca Yarros

In Navarre, all adults are conscripted into a stint of service at age 20. They can serve as healers, scribes, infantry, or riders. Dragon riders that is. Only the strongest, or craziest make the cut and become riders. Many die during training without ever even meeting a dragon. But it’s worth it for the chance to bond with a dragon and

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Book Review: ‘The Wheel of Time Book One: The Eye of the World’ by Robert Jordan

Robert Jordan creates an incredible world in his Wheel of Time book series. Now Amazon’s Prime Video has gone and brought his world to life in their original series. Now that season 2 has hit the streaming service, let’s visit the source material and see what all the buzz is about in The Eye of the World, book one of Jordan’s

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Book Review: ‘The Phoenix King’ by Aparna Verma

In The Phoenix King by Aparna Verma, it’s time for a new leader of the kingdom of Ravence to rise. Elena is prepared to become queen on her twenty-fifth birthday, just like her ancestors have for generations. She has some serious changes in mind for Ravence. But mostly she just wants to be a good queen to her people. But she’s

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Book Review: ‘House of Odysseus’ by Claire North

Everyone knows the tale of Odysseus. The guy sailed off to fight a war for his buddy’s pride, leaving behind his young wife and infant son. Twenty years later he finally makes it back home after sailing all over Greece and having a million different adventures to find his wife still waiting for him (and beating off a million different suitors

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Book Review: ‘Wildwood Magic’ by Willa Reece

Welcome to the Appalachian Mountains, and to the tiny little town of Morgan’s Gap. Meet Rachel, as a young girl the wildwood called to her. She had to leave but when she needed help as an adult she returned and the wildwood welcomed her back. She is hiding but no one can hide forever. A threat from her past has returned

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Book Review: ‘The Sun and The Void’ by Gabriela Romero Lacruz

In a world of magic, prejudice, and warring gods, two women must fight to find their places. Reina is an orphan who has dreamed of family her whole life. Suddenly her paternal grandmother reaches out to her with an invitation to a new life. Reina dares to hope that she may have finally found her place. Meanwhile, Eva is trapped in

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Book Review: ‘The Ravening Deep: An Arkham Horror Novel’ by Tim Pratt

An ancient hunger has been awoken. It is never can never be satiated. It will just eat and eat until it devours the whole world. Unless a group of unlikely heroes can stop it. Abel Davenport, the man who awoke the eldritch god, Diana Stanley, a reformed cultist, and Ruby Standish, a thief of esoteric goods, don’t seem like the most

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The Witcher Book Review: ‘Baptism of Fire’ by Andrzej Sapkowski

The Witcher has been separated from his destiny. Delivered to the dryads of Brokilon more dead than alive, he craves information about what happened to Ciri. When he hears that the emperor of Nilfgaard has her and is planning on marrying her, Geralt is determined to save her. With a new band of helpers, he begins his journey to save Ciri,

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Book Review: ‘Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch’ by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Who’s ready for the apocalypse say “I”! While Heaven and Hell have both been gearing up for this big show-down since time began, not everyone is on the same page. Turns out that a demon (Crowley) and an angel (Aziraphale) have grown to quite like life here on Earth. They’re not at all ready to have everything end in a blaze

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Book Review: ‘The Jasad Heir’ by Sara Hashem

At just ten years old, she was the sole survivor of a massacre that killed her entire family and toppled her country. In the time since then, Sylvia has built a new life for herself. Far away from her home country, she has a job, friends, and simple hopes for her future. But her past is never far away. If anyone

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