Decimation: A Dreamworld Short Story by Will O’Shire Review

Decimation: A Dreamworld Short Story by Will O’Shire 2/5 Stars 16 pages
Published November 27th 2018

Decimation is yet another very short, short story from Will O’shire, and this one just wasn’t for me. I’m not sure if it’s part of his other series, but this book was just very confusing and too short to really give me any information about anything. Following a character named Minos, we see them in first person as they first help a woman with her groceries, and then runs through the forest to maybe a caste or something? As an intense battle breaks out.

Though this book is filled with interesting creatures like dragons, goblins and yeti, it just wasn’t something that I loved reading. I couldn’t really get into it, and the story just jumped around too quickly in it’s short span. Though I did find a couple of the other short stories interesting, this just wasn’t one that will be my favourite.

The book is available here, and here’s a link to the author’s Twitter, if you’d like to keep up with him.

https://amzn.to/2JVRhiO

https://twitter.com/willoshire

Thanks for reading!

What’s the Best Way to Organize Your Books?

Hey! Hope everyone’s having a great day. I’m going to be busy filming unboxing videos today, but I’ve been thinking about something really important. What’s the best way to organize your books?

 

I’ve posted about this before, but now that I’ve moved, I’m really wondering how I should put my bookshelves together. By colour? Alphabet? Author? There’s so many choices, I’m not really sure where to start.

What’s your favourite way to organize your books? I need idea’s people! My last bookshelf wasn’t really organized other than books I have and haven’t read. I tried to group together the authors, but that’s about it. I really want a photo worthy bookshelf this time around.

Anyways, feel free to leave a comment with the ways that you organize your books, or your goals for your bookshelves. I really love the look of colour organized books, but I’m really open to hearing anything.

Thanks for reading! I’m looking forward to hearing your responses.

Argony by John Akers Review

Argony by John Akers 4/5 Stars 28 pages
Published December 9th 2018 by Tech Noir Press

Interested in John Akers’s books? Than Argony is the perfect thing to read, if you want just a little trial of something he’s written to start off with. This one in particular, is a first person short story with a nice cover. The character is inside a video game called 4real, and on trial for killing a “normie”.

 

Though I can’t tell you who the character is, where they’re from or what they look like, I can tell you that they’re really strong, have some kind of skeleton upgrade that makes them almost invincible, insane Zen powers, and that they never shot Nancy Chimera with a plasma rifle, and that they’ve never even seen one until today.

 

This book is really interesting, and makes me wonder what else the author has in store. I definitely want to check out his other book, and hope that it’s as exciting as this one.

 

This short story is available here, and here’s a link to the author’s Twitter, if you’d like to keep up with him.

Thanks for reading!

5 Video Games that Would Make Amazing Comics (Part 3)

Hey! I’m back again to make another post about video games that I loved, have a huge fan base, and I think would make a killing as comic books.

This time, I’d like to talk about the very popular and heart wrenching choose your own adventure game series, Life is Strange.

With three major games out, this series really takes a toll on you, both with the extreme questions you have to answer with a limited time, and really just the mystery surrounding it, and how real and edgy the characters are. Though not all, some have insane powers, including telekinesis, and short periods of time travel.

The first game follows a teen girl named Max, as she returns to her home town to discover that her childhood best friend isn’t quite who she remembered, and she’s swamped by visions of a massive storm hitting the town, as well as new found time travel powers. With this, she’s able to go back in time a few minutes and change her answers for things that she may have said or done.

The first game is also a major murder mystery, with alternate dimensions, and even a serial killer thrown into the mix. This game wasn’t anything that I expected it to be, and I was instantly hooked. The characters are very real, and you can easily get attached to them, for better or worse.

The second game however, not including the prequel in between, follows two young boys as they are forced to travel cross country on foot, after a brutal murder by the police, and a telekinetic mess that leaves them with no other option. Both games are intense, and addictive. And this is exactly why I think they would make amazing comics.

Not only would they creators be able to add onto the stories that are already built around the games, but there are endless possibilities that they could create new stories with new people, and new powers. Even a reboot in comic form would be cool, and I’m sure that anyone who loved the games would be interested in checking out the book form.

 

And that’s all I have to say about that! If you haven’t played the games, I definitely recommend checking them out. Thanks for reading! Hope you have a good day.

Rekindled (Circuit Fae #3.5) by Genevieve Iseult Eldredge Review

Rekindled (Circuit Fae #3.5) by Genevieve Iseult Eldredge 5/5 Stars 212 Pages Published March 26th 2019 by Firefly Hill Press

In Rekindled, the newest novella in the Circuit Fae series, we get to see a first person viewpoint that we’ve never seen before, Glamma. Throughout the book, we have the usual intertwined Rouen and Syl viewpoints, and this new part really added that extra push that it needed to be different from the other books. This time, Rouen’s memory has been wiped by their latest nemesis, the librarian. The only way to bring it back is for Syl to kiss her before the new moon.

 

This book, like the other, catches you up really nicely, which I’m really thankful for, reading as many books as I do. The characters are beautifully intertwined, and the whole thing is wrapped up in a really nice purple cover. I couldn’t wait to dig into this book, and I wasn’t disappointed. Glamma begins by saying that you can only fight the fae for so long before the damage catches up on you, that it’s all about playing keep away until Syl is able to fix what she messed up so long ago. After all, she’ll be the fair fae queen soon.

 

Rouen has lost her memory, and the librarian desperately needs Glamma to release her barrier spell from the hearthstones. She agrees, but only if she’ll sign her contract saying that she’ll give Syl until the new moon to break the curse, no tricks. The librarian reluctantly agrees, but little do they know that she has some other tricks up her sleeve.

 

We meet Rouen again at 1am, and the club that she’s playing is packed to the brim. She’s overcome with memories that can’t be her own, but feel so familiar that she can’t help but wonder. Still desperately in love with Syl, she dreams of a flame haired girl by her side. Syl, on the other hand, is following her around, and trying to get her beloved’s memories back, but also stay hidden from Rouen’s new manager, the librarian. The hardest thing of her life so far, is getting to see the girl she loves forget her completely. What she can’t forget, however, is her feelings for Syl.

 

If you’re looking for a heartfelt yet still action packed story that will keep you tied over until the official fourth book comes out, than you need to read this. And if you haven’t checked out the series before, I recommend checking out the first book, if you’re into young teens really growing into themselves, learning about the crazy world around them, and eventually entering the mystical faerie realms to fulfill their destinies.

 

The book is available here, and here’s a link to the author’s Twitter, if you’d like to keep up with her.

Thanks for reading!

Crowded, Vol. 1 by Christopher Sebela, Ro Stein, & Ted Brandt Review

Crowded, Vol. 1 by Christopher Sebela, Ro Stein, & Ted Brandt 5/5 Stars 160 pages
Publishing date: March 26th 2019 by Image Comics 

“Crowded” is another graphic novel with a girl who has hair like me, and I’ll never get tired of seeing it. Charlie is known better as “The Million Dollar Girl”, and then later as “The Two Million Dollar Girl”. One of the highest ranking paid assassinations on the app Reapr, which allows people to crowdfund enough money in the hopes that someone will kill her for that money. In the first issue, we see her meeting up with Vita, a female body guard, in a restaurant.

 

Vita’s kind of an uptight type, who goes to bed early, and only works when she feels like she’s prepared. She says that she didn’t say she could sit with her at the table, but Charlie tells her that she’s paying her, and that she should relax. If that doesn’t set the tone of their entire relationship throughout the book, I don’t know what does. Moments later, a man pulls out a gun in attempt to shoot Charlie, but Vita shoots him without even pausing. Charlie tells Vita why they’re there.

 

It started out like any other normal day, Charlie, working her many jobs through apps and just doing her thing. She likes to rent out things she owns for money, like her car and her clothes, but she also does other things for money, like walking dogs and babysitting, and even tutoring calculus. My favourite though, is when an old man books her to hang out and feed the pigeons with him. Who wouldn’t want that job? She hooks up with strangers and sneaks out before they wake up, but that day everything changed. Someone started shooting at her from across the street. And they’re only in it for the money.

 

This book is one that’s exciting from the first few pages. I really enjoyed the colourful art and the story itself, it’s not like anything I’ve read lately. My favourite character of course is Charlie, but also Vita, because they’re so different from each other that really work well together. Of course, how could I not like the girl with hair like me? The story is full of gunfights, explosions, and Vita chasing after Charlie. She often wonders if she wants to get killed, but I think that Charlie just wants to live her life while she still can, especially when there’s a hit taken out on her. I also really liked the different art styles in the variant covers, and between issues. I really liked reading this, and I’m glad I got the chance to check it out. If you think it’s something you would like, I definitely recommend you check it out too.

 

The book is available here, and here’s a link to the creator’s Twitter accounts, if you’d like to keep up with them.

https://twitter.com/xtop

https://twitter.com/RosyTintedSpecs?lang=en

https://twitter.com/ten_bandits?lang=en

Thanks for reading!

Umbra: Dimension Drift Prequels #2 (Dimension Drift 0.2) by Christina Bauer Review

Umbra: Dimension Drift Prequels #2 (Dimension Drift 0.2) by Christina Bauer 4/5 Stars 150 pages
Published March 26th 2019 by Monster House Books

Have you read Scythe and fallen in love with the characters like the rest of us? Then I’m sure you’re ready for the next prequel installment, Umbra. Told first person from Thorne’s point of view, we really dig deep into his backstory, and get to know him and his alien race a little better. I couldn’t wait to check this book out, and I’m glad I got the chance to.

 

With a really interesting looking cover, this mostly alien book is filled with talk of other dimensions, including what it’s like to be the Prince of an alien race. This book begins nine minutes before a version of earth different from the one that Meimi is on in the first book could be torn apart. Thorne’s job, is to find the schism that’s causing the problem.

 

The Umbran people are very similar to humans, with two big differences. Their ability to turn blue, and the tiny cybernetic organisms that make up their very being. A short but interesting read, I’m excited to see what comes in the first official novel of the series, and intrigued to learn more about not only the Umbran characters, but the Human characters as well. I definitely recommend checking out this book if you’re looking for something exciting and different in the realm of young adult fiction, that includes aliens and alternate dimensions.

 

The book is available here, and here’s a link to the author’s Twitter, if you’d like to keep up with her.

Thanks for reading!

The Magician: A Dark Urban Fantasy Short Story (The Fae Awakening) by Will O’Shire Review

The Magician: A Dark Urban Fantasy Short Story (The Fae Awakening) by Will O’Shire 4/5 Stars 22 pages
Published January 16th 2019

In the next short story installment of “The Fae Awakening” series, this book follows a strange man made of smoke in third person. We meet Ethan, a real life magician, not one of those trick magicians, and we see him interact with the man. Out of all of the stories in this series, this is one of the ones I liked the most.

 

Though these are very quick, well under fifty pages each, I really got to see what the strange man was about in this book, and I didn’t feel sucked out of the story by the writing. I’m intrigued to see what happens in the next one I read, and I’m actually a little excited to check it out. If you like short, to the point, fantasy stories, than you should check this one out. I don’t think it matters if you read the short stories out of order, so you could pick this one up at any time.

 

The book is available here, and here’s a link to the author’s Twitter, if you’d like to keep up with him.

Thanks for reading!

Update for Today

Just thought I would make a little post because I’m moving today and might miss my post tomorrow. Sorry about that book family! My posts will be back to normal asap.

The World That Remains by Matthew S. Cox Review

The World That Remains by Matthew S. Cox 4/5 Stars 250 pages
Published March 15th 2019 by Division Zero Press 

Have you read Evergreen? Did you finish that book wanting more to the story, or to know the characters better? Than you need to check out this book, because even though it’s not as exciting as the first, it fills all of those wants and more. Again, following Harper in first person as she adjusts to her new life and family, it shows the daily struggles that imagine one might go through in the apocalypse.

 

Though I didn’t like this one as much as the first, I think that this book is a really nice follow up. The world that she lives in hasn’t changed much in the last three months since the end of Evergreen, but there are still problems that the town faces. Not only is food scarce while they’re starting up the farm, but people often try to raid the food storage building, and there’s still the worry about this Shadow Man that they keep hearing so much about from one particular child. Harper struggles as she tries to get over the loss of her parents but still stay strong for her kid sister and adopted child. She also has to go with the military that they’ve created to abandoned cities for supplies, which is dangerous.

 

I don’t really have a favourite part, but I did still enjoy the book. It’s easy to fall into, and easy to read. I’m glad I got the chance to read it, and though you could read this one without reading the first one, I don’t think that it has the same feel to it, and I’m not sure it would be as interesting without knowing the story of Evergreen. I’m looking forward to seeing what author Matthew S. Cox comes up with next.

 

The book is available here, and here’s a link to the author’s Twitter, if you’d like to keep up with him.

Thanks for reading!