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Keeper of the Lost Cities: Books 3 and 4

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                                                                        Spoiler Warnings After reading the first 2 books of the series, I was completely addicted to the main character’s nonexistent relatability. Guess what? She only gets worse. While in the first 2 books she develops all these abilities and is super powerful, she finally starts developing a God Complex. She believes that only she can solve the problems because she is the only one powerful enough to do that. So what does that lead to? She almost starts a war between the elves and ogres. Thanks Sophie Foster. Since she almost started a war, she gets banished. This book series was clearly written for elementary to middle schoolers, but here I am reading away. It is pathetic how all her male friends seem to be interested in her, with her only ...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

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 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Sahnan Haber Christopher is 15 years, 3 months and 2 days old when he comes home to find their neighbor’s dog: Wellington, lifeless on the ground with a fork stabbed into his body. Christopher has autism and likes dogs; their emotions are easier to understand than humans’. After arriving home and suspecting Christopher to be the killer, Wellington’s owner, Mrs. Shears calls the police. In a misunderstanding, Christopher ends up hitting one of the cops and is detained for the assault of a police officer. He is released that day, but with a warning and on the condition that he does not look any further into the murder of Wellington. However, Christopher is set on figuring out what happened. After ignoring warnings from his father, for a school project, Christopher writes about his investigation in a book: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime . As Christopher looks deeper into the case, he discovers a much more complicated ...

One Punch Man: Review by Jonah Stamps

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 One Punch Man Summary Imagine a world, far in the future where monsters regularly attack the world. These monsters can kill many people and destroy entire cities by themselves. In order to combat this, many rich billionaires fund a project to start the hero association. This would allow people with special strengths and abilities to be able to fight these monsters and save many lives. That is the world of One Punch Man. The world is attacked by many monsters and it is up to the strongest heroes to defeat the monsters and save the world The story follows a man named Saitama, who has been training for the past three years to be a hero. He begins as being a hero just for fun, but he isn't able to have much fun. He isn't able to have fun because he is so strong that no matter the enemy, he is able to kill anything with just one punch. He eventually joins the hero association, and nobody is able to know just how strong he is because he starts at the very bottom of the hero ranks. A...

In The Skin Of A Monster

  This book contains shooting and violence, be warned if you are uncomfortable with these things. Another day, another review. This review is going to be about a book called In The Skin Of A Monster  by Kathryn Barker. The title of this book accurately describes how the protagonist, Alice, is thought to be a monster since she supposedly took a gun to school three years ago and shot seven innocent kids at a school. Everyone in the town was shocked and Alice starts to struggle with her public identity as a "murderer". Alice decides to head out onto an old highway where she meets a ghost-figured girl standing on the opposite side of the road. As Alice approaches the girl, she gets transported to a world filled with nightmares. This world is known as a "dream world", featuring the nightmares and dreams of the townspeople. Alice goes through this world and finds her former classmate, Lux. Lux despises Alice but yet they must escape this dream world together.  [No book co...