Book Review and Writing Lessons: The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan

    Percy is confused. When he awoke after his long sleep, he didn’t know much more than his name. His brain-fuzz is lingering, even after the wolf Lupa told him he is a demigod and trained him to fight. Somehow Percy managed to make it to the camp for half-bloods, despite the fact that …

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A Book Review of The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

  This bewitching and harrowing tale of mystery and survival, and memory and magic, makes the impossible all too real…   A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, …

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A Book Review of Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

    For a thousand years, the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years, the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the “Sliver of Infinity,” reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not …

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A Book Review of Let the Ghosts Speak by Bryan Davis

  In 19th century Paris, Justin Trotter, an immigrant from England, is making his way as a book translator while paying for his blind twin sister’s care. One evening, Marc Noël, Justin’s well-to-do friend and fellow thespian, invites him to a masquerade party at an abandoned schoolhouse. Justin hopes this will be an opportunity to …

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