"Trust the lord!" A crypto-thriller, a rogue AI, a morality test? What is The God Game? A simple text-based chatbot/game is found by one of a group of high school friends in Austin, Tx. The crew call themselves the Vindicators, a group of outcasts who hang out in the computer room at lunch. They do... Continue Reading →
Blood Tally by Brian McClellan
Alek Fitz is back... it's a couple months after the events of Uncanny Collateral and Ada has another job for her favorite reaper. A thrall has run away from his vampire master. (A thrall is a human who signs a contract of servitude in exchange for eventually turning into a vampire and with it immortality.)... Continue Reading →
Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: Force Collector Kindle Edition by Kevin Shinick
Force Collector is a trip around the universe checking in on past events, artifacts, and Jedi history. A survey course of Jedi lore! This book reminded me a lot of Claudia Gray's Lost Stars. Whereas the characters in Gray's novel live through the events in episode 4-6, Shinick's main character, Karr Nuq Sinn, is a young... Continue Reading →
Last Kids on Earth by Max Brallier, Illustrated by Douglas Holgate
My son was sick a couple weeks ago and we were watching waaaaay too much TV. We flipped over the NetFlix and found this new show called The Last Kids on Earth. We loved it. Zombies and Monsters and a Tricked Out TreeHouse! The premise: A group of middle schoolers find each other after a... Continue Reading →
Pumpkin Heads by Rainbow Rowell. Illustrated by Faith Erin Hicks
Pumpkin Heads is a massively sweet graphic novel about the brink of change in a young person's life. The last night Deja and Josiah get to work together in the pumpkin patch senior year of high school. They are pretty bummed because they know that next year they will be off at college, probably different... Continue Reading →